Researchers Remember Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies

" This is a book about research, but even more so, about researchers. A book about memory, but also about trying to forget. A book about the Holocaust, but one that only begins once it's over. A book about survivors, but only as far as their story impacts upon their offspring. "How do you cope when the most important events of your life happened before you were even born? What does this do to your sense of time? Of authenticity?" writes second generation author and literary critic Melvin J. Bukiet. For the subjects of this book, second and third generation ("2g" and "3g") offspring of Holocaust survivors who chose a research profession, that event was the Holocaust, occuring long before they were even born, and shaping everything that came after it, including their own lives" -- From the introduction.