At Home with the Holocaust

At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature—such as Art Spiegelman's Maus , Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Sonia Pilcer's The Holocaust Kid , and Elizabeth Rosner's The Speed of Light —as well as oral histories of children of survivors,