Teaching the representation of the Holocaust / edited by Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The barbarity of footnotes : history and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- Questions of authenticity / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- Teaching about perpetrators / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Reflections on the long history of European antisemitism / Susannah Heschel and Sander Gilman -- Gender and Holocaust representation / Sara R. Horowitz -- Teaching trauma and transmission / Bella Brodzki -- The Holocaust and comparative genocide in the twentieth century / Eric D. Weitz -- "Y- you know English?" : multilingual English and the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- Poetry and Holocaust remembrance / Susan Gubar -- Teaching fiction, teaching the Holocaust / Amy Hungerford -- Broken records : Holocaust diaries, memoirs, and memorial books / Jared Stark -- Audio and video testimony and Holocaust studies / Geoffrey Hartman -- Teaching cinema, teaching the Holocaust / Orly Lubin -- Teaching the drama of the Holocaust / Christian Rogowski -- The problem of childhood, children's literature, and Holocaust representation / Adrienne Kertzer -- Postmemory, backshadowing, separation : teaching second-generation Holocaust fiction / Efraim Sicher -- Teaching German memory and countermemory : the end of the Holocaust monument in Germany / James E. Young -- Teaching visual culture and the Holocaust / David Bathrick -- Responding to the burden of witness in Dan Pagig's "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car" / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Paul Celan's Stars : teaching "Todesfuge" as a canonical Holocaust poem / Ulrich Baer -- Questioning key texts : a pedagogical approach to teaching Elie Wiesel's Night / Gary Weissman -- A rational humanist confronts the Holocaust : teaching Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz / Jonathan Druker -- Reconsidering Anne Frank : teaching the diary in its historical and cultural context / Pascale Bos -- Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and after : how to arrive and depart / Judith Greenberg -- The 1.5 generation : Georges Perec's W or the memory of childhood / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Ruth Kluger's Still alive : a Holocaust girlhood remembered : an unsentimental education / Nancy K. Miller -- "Toward an addressable you" : Ozick's The shawl and the mouth of the witness / Michael G. Levine -- "You wanted history, I give you history" : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Leo Spitzer -- Not quite Holocaust fiction : A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani and W.G. Sebald's The emigrants / Adam Zachary Newton -- Winning support for a multidisciplinary Holocaust course at a small liberal arts college / Marcia D. Horn -- Teaching the Holocaust in a genocide studies framework at a historically black university / Renee A. Hill -- Building a Holocaust studies program for both town and gown / David Scrase -- Teaching the Holocaust in a Jewish American literature course / Joshua L. Charlston -- Pedagogy and the politics of memory : "the countermonument project" / Michael Rothberg -- Writing the Holocaust : the transformative power of response journals / Sondra Perl -- Afterword / Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes.