Main description:

Israeli perspective on postmemory. Interdisciplinary focus. Also includes discussion of postcolonialism.

Contents:

Table of Contents

List of Figures

1. Introduction

Judy Tydor Baumel Schwartz and Rony Alfandary

Part One - Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Postmemorial Work

2. Searching, searching, searching.... Are there any relatives in the room?

Rony Alfandary

3. Then Came Hitler: A Lifetime of Choices on My Path of Postmemorial Work

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

4. Reflections on Postmemory - with some notes from Ireland and Greece

Richard Pine

5. Traumatic Childhood and Growing up in the Shadow of Trauma: When Post-Trauma Meets Postmemory: The story of David, a Holocaust survivor

Maia Jessica Shoham

6. From Stone Tomb to Flourishing Vineyard: Moving from Silent Testimony to Living Creativity in "Creating memory", a Bibliotherapy Initiative for Third Generation Holocaust Survivors

Bella Sagi

7. Never Forget - The Net Will Remember: Connective Memory as a Form of Postmemory in the Age of Digital Platforms

Oshri Bar-Gil

Part Two - Postmemorial work in Literature and Art

8. Letting the Monster in? Illustrating the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Children's Picture Books

Erga Heller

9. "Where's the little girl? What little girl? Was there ever a little girl?": From Narrative Memory to Emotional Memory in Nava Semel's Book "And the Rat Laughed"

Naama Reshef

10. The presence of absence Post-memory in my life

Naomi Shmuel

11. "I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors": Second Generation Postmemory in Animated Documentary

Liat Steir-Livny

12. "If It's ME Reading the Signs": Carl Jung's Synchronicity and the a-causal in Holocaust Postmemory at the Movies

Michelle Lisses-Topaz

13. Writing the erasure

Ilana Eilati Shalit

List of Contributors