Re-presenting the Shoah for the twenty-first century / edited by Ronit Lentin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Postmemory, Unsayability and the Return of the Auschwitz Code / Ronit Lentin -- 1: Categorial Murder, or: How to Remember the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- 2: 'The word passed away, as that world awakened': On the (Im)possibility of Representation / Heidrun Friese -- 3: Memory, Forgetting and Mourning Work: Deviant Narratives of Silence in the Gendered Relations between Israeli Zionism and the Shoah / Ronit Lentin -- 4: Entering the World of a Holocaust Victim: Schoolchildren Discuss a Ghetto Memoir - a Case Study / Janina Bauman -- 5: A Dual Perspective: Yaakov Shabtai and the Historian's Account of the Deportation to Mauritius / Dalia Ofer -- 6: Memory, Authenticity and Replication of the Shoah in Museums: Defensive Tools of the Nation / Andrea Tyndall -- 7: Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy / Yosefa Loshitzky -- 8: Voice, Silence and Memory: The Escape from Auschwitz and Israeli Historiography / Ruth Linn -- 9: The Shoah and Marxism: Behind and Beyond Silence / Philip Spencer -- 10: Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland in the Shoah / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska -- 11: Denying the Holocaust where it Happened: Post-Communist East Central Europe and the Shoah / Michael Shafir -- 12: Evoking and Revoking Auschwitz: Kosovo, Remembrance and German National Identity / Christine Achinger -- 13: Exile, Daughterhood and Writing: Representing the Shoah as a Personal Memory / Esther Fuchs