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Unwanted legacies : sharing the burden of post-genocide generations / Gottfried Wagner and Abraham J. Peck ; forewords by Michael Berenbaum and Steven Leonard Jacobs ; translation of Gottfried Wagner's manuscript by Ivan Fehrenbach.
- Title
- Unwanted legacies : sharing the burden of post-genocide generations / Gottfried Wagner and Abraham J. Peck ; forewords by Michael Berenbaum and Steven Leonard Jacobs ; translation of Gottfried Wagner's manuscript by Ivan Fehrenbach.
- Author
- Wagner, Gottfried
- Publication
- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Additional Authors
- Peck, Abraham J.
- Description
- xlii, 410 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes their relationship? What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting across from each other and facing their legacies? For more than two decades, Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, whose music inspired Adolf Hitler and whose family helped the Nazis rise to power, and Abraham J. Peck, the son of two survivors whose entire families were murdered in the Holocaust, have been engaged in a unique and often torturous discussion on the German-Jewish relationship after the Shoah. That discussion has focused on their family histories and on the myths and realities of the relationship between Germans and Jews since the beginning of the nineteenth century and the process of reshaping that relationship for those Germans and Jews born after 1945. Rejecting the notion that they are either victims or perpetrators, both authors examine the "unwanted legacies" they inherited and have had to confront and overcome. "--
- Series Statement
- Modern Jewish history
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Wagner family
- Wagner, Gottfried > Biography
- Peck family
- Peck, Abraham J. > Biography
- Wagner, Gottfried, 1947-
- Peck, Abraham J
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects
- Reconciliation > Social aspects
- Germany > Ethnic relations
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The shadows of Richard Wagner as a German myth / Gottfried Wagner -- Running toward and from the Churbn / Abraham J. Peck -- Post-Holocaust Germans and Jews / Abraham J. Peck -- Viewing the past but looking to the future / Gottfried Wagner -- The final chapter? : Repairing the world / Abraham J. Peck -- Beyond the shadow of German and family myths / Gottfried Wagner -- New allies : holocaust, genocide, and human-rights studies / Abraham J. Peck -- Afterwords: Discourses on holocaust and genocide : have we learned anything from history? / Gottfried Wagner -- Our dialogue today : what has changed and who have we become? / Abraham J. Peck.
- ISBN
- 9780896728349 (hardback)
- 089672834X (hardback)
- 9780896728356 (paperback)
- 0896728358 (paperback)
- 9780896728363 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013036234
- OCLC
- 835981662
- SCSB-12405209
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library