Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
After Adorno : culture in the wake of catastrophe -- Before Auschwitz : Maurice Blanchot, from now on -- "The barbed wire of the postwar world" : Ruth Klüger's traumatic realism -- Unbearable witness : Charlotte Delbo's traumatic timescapes -- Reading Jewish : Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust postmemory -- "Touch an event to begin" : Americanizing the Holocaust --Conclusion : after the "final solution" : from the "Jewish question" to Jewish questioning.