The Shadow and the Flame (A Story of Loss, Survival, and the Making of Holocaust Memory)
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Product Details
Author:
James McAuley
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (January 26, 2027)
Imprint:
Knopf
Release Date:
January 26, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780593535745
ISBN-10:
059353574X
Weight:
23.33oz
Dimensions:
6.125" x 9.25" x 1.125"
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Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$35.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
12
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$26.95
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P-RH
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A
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Yes
Overview
An intellectual history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of the years following World War II, when the form and character of Holocaust remembrance was fiercely debated
In 1945, the end of World War II and the liberation of the Nazi camps ended the catastrophe that we now know as the Holocaust. Stunned by grief, survivors faced the task of not only forging new lives but also shaping how this cataclysm might be remembered by generations to come.
A magisterial work of history years in the making, The Shadow and the Flame takes as its subject the urgent debate that ensued—one that spanned decades and continents and that was the first of its kind. Acclaimed historian James McAuley takes us into the minds and hearts of the individuals—many well-known, others largely forgotten—who waged that dispute in Europe, the United States, and the newly established state of Israel: from Hannah Arendt, whose reporting from the Eichmann trial enraged her fellow Jews; to Sol Baron, the era’s preeminent Jewish historian, who battled to protect the story of his people from the burden of tragedy; to Elie Wiesel, whose account of life at Auschwitz became the one the world chose to embrace, even as it alienated many of his peers.
McAuley transports us from Paris to New York, from the desecrated ghettos of Poland to the newly established state of Israel, as the event we now call the Holocaust made an uneasy transition into memory—one that, far from being neatly resolved, weighs heavily upon the present. Bold, learned, monumental in its scope and infused with the energy and emotion of its principals, The Shadow and the Flame is the dramatic account of the contentious process—at once painful and shot through with urgency and consequence—of crafting history in real time.
In 1945, the end of World War II and the liberation of the Nazi camps ended the catastrophe that we now know as the Holocaust. Stunned by grief, survivors faced the task of not only forging new lives but also shaping how this cataclysm might be remembered by generations to come.
A magisterial work of history years in the making, The Shadow and the Flame takes as its subject the urgent debate that ensued—one that spanned decades and continents and that was the first of its kind. Acclaimed historian James McAuley takes us into the minds and hearts of the individuals—many well-known, others largely forgotten—who waged that dispute in Europe, the United States, and the newly established state of Israel: from Hannah Arendt, whose reporting from the Eichmann trial enraged her fellow Jews; to Sol Baron, the era’s preeminent Jewish historian, who battled to protect the story of his people from the burden of tragedy; to Elie Wiesel, whose account of life at Auschwitz became the one the world chose to embrace, even as it alienated many of his peers.
McAuley transports us from Paris to New York, from the desecrated ghettos of Poland to the newly established state of Israel, as the event we now call the Holocaust made an uneasy transition into memory—one that, far from being neatly resolved, weighs heavily upon the present. Bold, learned, monumental in its scope and infused with the energy and emotion of its principals, The Shadow and the Flame is the dramatic account of the contentious process—at once painful and shot through with urgency and consequence—of crafting history in real time.
