Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses PDF
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Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust AlsoavailablebyPhyllisLassner BRITISHWOMENWRITERSOFWORLDWARII COLONIALSTRANGERS:WomenWritingtheEndoftheBritishEmpire ELIZABETHBOWEN ELIZABETHBOWEN:AStudyoftheShortFiction Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust Displaced Witnesses Phyllis Lassner ©PhyllisLassner2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-20258-0 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthor ofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright,Designsand PatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2008by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. Macmillan®isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean Unionandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-30065-5 ISBN 978-0-230-22736-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230227361 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 To the next Lassner generation Julia, Brody, and Tyler This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1. OtherPeople’sHouses:RememberingtheKindertransport 19 2. KarenGershon:StrangerfromtheKindertransport 48 3. DramasoftheKindertransportandItsAftermath 75 4. TheTransgenerationalHauntingofAnneKarpfand LisaAppignanesi 103 5. ElaineFeinstein’sHolocaustImagination 129 6. DisplacedWitnesses:JuliaPascal’sandSueFrumin’s HolocaustDramas 156 Afterword 186 Notes 190 Bibliography 209 Index 219 vii This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements I’d like to express appreciation to all those who have given permission to quote from their writing. In addition to permission to quote from Karen Gershon’s poems, her daughter Stella Tripp also helped me locate her mother’svideo,StrangersinaStrangeLand.Forpermissiontoquotefromthe video,IthankSouthWestFilmandTelevisionArchive.EsterGolangranted permission to quote from her mother’s letters. I am very grateful to Peter LawsonwhosharedGershon’sunpublishedmanuscriptswithmeaswellas discussionaboutherwork.IthanktheManchesterJewishMuseumforper- missiontoreprintthephotoimagethatformsthecoverofthisbook.Elaine Feinstein’s generosity in sharing bibliographies and granting permission to quotefromhermanuscriptsandpoems, aswellasongoingsupportformy writing about hers, is matched by the friendship we have now shared for many years. I would also like to thank Diane Samuels and Julia Pascal for permissiontoquotefromtheirplaysaswellasOberonBooks,Pascal’spub- lisher. ReadingsfromtheirplaysataconferenceonPost-WarBritishJewish Writing in Mainz, Germany, became the inspiration for this book. Later, when they talked with me in London, their insights helped me to find a focus. Every effort has been made to trace rights holders, but if any have beeninadvertentlyoverlookedthepublisherswouldbepleasedtomakethe necessaryarrangementsatthefirstopportunity. IamgratefultoNorthwesternUniversityfortheHewlettgrantsthatfunded my research-based courses on Holocaust representation as well as my trav- els to England, all of which happened because of Bob Gundlach’s constant support and teaching wisdom. I would also like to express appreciation to audiencesandtheirquestionsatconferenceshereintheUS,inEngland, at BenGurionUniversityinIsrael,andinBelgium,aswellastoPaulGoringwho invitedmetospeakaboutmyworkattheNorwegianUniversityofScience and Technology. My colleagues and friends in the Space Between Society andinvitationsfromAlanRosen,KerenGoldfrad,JennyTaylor,andMarina MacKaytowriteonotherHolocauststorieshavegivenmesomanyoppor- tunitiestothink,rethink,andrevisemyworkonthisverydifficultsubject. IaminfinitelygratefulforElizabethMaslen’sgenerousfriendshipandwise responsestomyideasandwriting. IwishtoexpressthankstoPaulaKennedy,myeditor,forherenthusiastic interest from start to finish. And, as ever, there is Jake Lassner, who has alwaysfullyunderstoodtheoftenoverwhelmingpowerofwritingaboutthe Holocaustandwhospurredmeonwithhisownpassionforthecontinuity ofJewishculture. ix
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