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After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, by Eva Hoffman. Perseus Books Group, 2004. 280 pages, cloth, $25.00.
In her last book, Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman showed us what it was like to experience the self-absorbed me-generation of 1960s America as an adolescent emigrant from war-torn Krakow, Poland. In After Such Knowledge, Hoffman reveals her outsider's perspective once more, only this time as a second-generation Holocaust survivor.
Hoffman asks fellow survivors, readers, and herself, "What meanings does...