Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival

The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana in Context
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-80073-081-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The idea of survival is a recurrent theme in discussions both of family and of art. Whether understood in physical, mental, or spiritual terms, it is inextricable from the most basic questions of human existence, encompassing the ways in which individual experience can persist after death. Questions of survival and immortality are thus central for understanding the artistically expansive family at the center of this volume: Alice Lok Cahana, a Holocaust survivor and painter; her son Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, a writer and stroke survivor; and his daughter Kitra Cahana, a photographer who embeds herself in communities in order to tell their stories. Complemented with fascinating essays that provide powerful insights into memory and trauma, this beautifully illustrated book interweaves powerful accounts of these three artists with a complex story of human experience, legacy, and meaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soltes, Ori Z.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Ori Z. Soltes

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Rachel Stern

Introduction

Ori Z. Soltes

Remembering

Larry R. Squire and John T. Wixted

Major Variable of Holocaust Trauma Transmission

Natan P. F. Kellermann

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors: Myths and Realities

Eva Fogelman

Conclusion

Ori Z. Soltes

Appendix I: “The Shadows at Night”

Appendix II: Eulogy Delivered at Alice Lok Cahana’s Funeral by Kitra Cahana

Appendix III: Cahana Family Timeline

Über Autor(innen)

Soltes, Ori Z.
Ori Z. Soltes is Professor of the Teaching of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University and and is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. He is a well-published art historian, theologian, and scholar of Judaism and the Holocaust.