Gary Weissman. Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust.(Book Review) From: Biography | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Gary Weissman. Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004. 266 pp. ISBN 8-801-44253-2, $29.95.

Considerable work has been done of late on second-generation Holocaust survivors, and in particular, the children of Holocaust survivors, who are deeply invested in their parents' experiences in the Holocaust, and who, through their parents' stories become secondhand witnesses to the horrors that their parents experienced. The literature of second-generation writers, such as Melvin Bukiet, Thane Rosenbaum, and Art Spiegelman, is ...

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