ABSTRACT
To chart Jewish history from Auschwitz to Yavneh is to revise the Jewish cultural map in the shadow of destruction and to configure a space in which secular Jews can identify individually with collective loss and traumatic memory. The novels discussed in this chapter by Nicole Krauss (The History of Love, Great House), Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated), and David Grossman (See Under: Love) articulate a search for love in an existential emptiness charred by a violent rupture with the past. The Holocaust is disconnected from master narratives and ghosted by Bruno Schulz, whose influence or uncanny presence shapes the response of these writers to the possibility or impossibility of salvation.
