Julia Epstein and Lori room for ex...

Julia Epstein and Lori room for expectation Lefkovitz, eds. Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust. Urbana: U of Illinois P 2001 239 pp ISBN 0-2520-2438-9 $4995 cloth; ISBN 0-2520-6949-8 $2195 paper.

The Holocaust is weighty, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but as a cultural power and as an inexhaustible source for los and guilt. It appears for a like reason momentous, so blindly other, that we can either squander ourselves in its overpowering vastness, or carefully rebuild our identities without thinking too a great deal of about "dead Jews." I, for united have followed the latter course, still Epstein and Lefkovitz's ...