Marianne Hirsch is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory and articles on Holocaust memory, visuality, and gender. Irene Kacandes, associate professor of German studies and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, is the author of Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion and Daddy's War: Greek American Storytelling, Family Memory, and Trauma. A Paramemoir. She is coeditor (with Scott Denham and Jonathan Petropoulos) of A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies.
Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. The thirty-eight contributors to this volume come from various disciplines and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.