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I am a PhD candidate in Jewish Cultural Practice and a Teaching Associate at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I am currently researching the German Jewish refugees of Eswatini (Swaziland) through the prism of third-generation Holocaust narrative. I am also writing a short-story cycle as part of her PhD project. My research focus is in the marginal Holocaust narratives from the perspective of third-generation representation. I am also a Program Manager at Melbourne Jewish Book Week.
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In addressing the issue of narrative ethics and its intersection with writing and remembering the... more In addressing the issue of narrative ethics and its intersection with writing and remembering the Holocaust from a position of historical and generational distance, this paper probes challenges of third-generation Holocaust representation. For this generation of postmemory, Auschwitz has become the defining marker of Holocaust memory. Even for those whose memories do not directly lead them back there, the collective lens retains this focal point. In demonstrating that memory need not rely on what has become a generic site of pain, I explore options for 'leaving' Auschwitz, as it were, while still preserving Holocaust memory continuity. In doing so, I focus on two contrasting examples of Holocaust narrative, authored respectively by Heather Morris and Eduardo Halfon, citing Esther Jilovsky's parameters of third-generation narrative. I conclude that leaving Auschwitz behind, metaphorically, as well as contextually, need not be the end of Holocaust history, rather a signalling of a different path forward in respect to its ethical, respectful and meaningful preservation.
In addressing the issue of narrative ethics and its intersection with writing and remembering the... more In addressing the issue of narrative ethics and its intersection with writing and remembering the Holocaust from a position of historical and generational distance, this paper probes challenges of third-generation Holocaust representation. For this generation of postmemory, Auschwitz has become the defining marker of Holocaust memory. Even for those whose memories do not directly lead them back there, the collective lens retains this focal point. In demonstrating that memory need not rely on what has become a generic site of pain, I explore options for 'leaving' Auschwitz, as it were, while still preserving Holocaust memory continuity. In doing so, I focus on two contrasting examples of Holocaust narrative, authored respectively by Heather Morris and Eduardo Halfon, citing Esther Jilovsky's parameters of third-generation narrative. I conclude that leaving Auschwitz behind, metaphorically, as well as contextually, need not be the end of Holocaust history, rather a signalling of a different path forward in respect to its ethical, respectful and meaningful preservation.