Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jaco...

Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, ed Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana UP 2003 336 pp 74 b + w photos. ISBN 0-253-21569-2 $2295

Since the Enlightenment the observation of the visual world has had

a privileged status: it is a precondition and guarantee of knowledge

and understanding. Being an eyewitness of something implies more or

les automatic apprehension and comprehension of the observ

situation or result This link between seeing and comprehension,

however, has been radically disrupted in the