Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Choosing Our Past"; 2 Narrative Desire; 3 Commemorating the Illustrious Dead; 4 History, Memory, and Moral Judgment after the Holocaust; 5 Anamnesis: Remembering Jewish Identity in Central Europe after Communism; 6 Revision: Historical Trauma and Literary Testimony; 7 Do Facts Matter in Holocaust Memoirs?; 8 The Edge of Memory: Experimental Writing and the 1.5 Generation; 9 Amnesia and Amnesty: Reflections on Forgetting and Forgiving; Notes; Works Cited; Index.