Traces, Memory and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald: Melilah Supplement 2 9781463234782

A multidisciplinary study of W.G. Sebald's concerns in German-Jewish history, traces, displacement, and memory of a

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Memory, Traces and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald
Introduction
‘And so they are ever returning to us, the dead’: the presence of the dead in W.G. Sebald
Kindertransport, camps and the Holocaust in Austerlitz
The peripatetic paragraph: walking (and walking) with W.G. Sebald
‘I couldn’t imagine any world outside Wales’: the place of Wales and Welsh Calvinist Methodism in Sebald’s European story
'Utter Blackness': figuring Sebald's Manchester
Max Ferber and the persistence of pre-memory in Mancunian exile
The uses of images: W.G. Sebald & T.J. Clark
Novel crime, hunting and investigation of the traces in Sebald’s prose
Notes on contributors

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Memory, Traces and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald

Memory, Traces and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald Supplementary Volume No.2 (2012) EDITORS

Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Janet Wolff EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Francesca Frazer A publication of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Co-published by

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Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies is distributed electronically free of charge at http:// www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/ Melilah is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. It was launched in 2004 by Bernard Jackson and Ephraim Nissan under the auspices of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester as the New Series of the journal of the same name founded by Edward Robertson and Meir Wallenstein and published (in Hebrew) by Manchester University Press from 1944 to 1955. Five substantial volumes, each of around two hundred XIOM[_MZMXZWL]KMLJMNWZM\PM[MZQM[_I[LQ[KWV\QV]ML1VPQ[MLQ\WZQITNWZM_WZL\W\PMÅZ[\ edition, Robertson explained that Melilah had been established to promote Jewish scholarship in the face of the threat posed by the War and its aftermath. The title of the journal refers to the ears of corn that are plucked to rub in the hands before the grains can be eaten (Deut. 23:25).

Memory, Traces and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald CONTENTS J EAN -M ARC D REYFUS AND J ANET W OLFF : Introduction ................................................................................................................1 C AROLE A NGIER (7 @.7:, *:773-; =61>-:;1