Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, Omer Bartov (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), xvii + 232 pp., 26.95
Erased is likely to surprise readers familiar with Omer Bartov's previous works on the Holocaust and its perpetrators. In contrast to those works, this one is highly personal; as he explains in the introduction, it is the product of a middle-aged man whose childhood memory subtly directed him “...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 298-300 |
| Review of: | Erased (Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2007) (Haberer, Erich)
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| Summary: | Erased is likely to surprise readers familiar with Omer Bartov's previous works on the Holocaust and its perpetrators. In contrast to those works, this one is highly personal; as he explains in the introduction, it is the product of a middle-aged man whose childhood memory subtly directed him “to look back and listen to the inner voice of his past, to ask the questions that had never been posed: where, when, why, how?” These questions induced him to travel to what was for him “a white space on the map”: the towns of eastern Galicia, including his parents' hometown of Buchach (Buczacz). This was, he writes, “a journey into a black hole that had sucked in entire civilizations along with individuals and never-to-be-met family members, making them vanish as if they never existed” (pp. ix–x). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp024 |