| Abstract | Popkin comments on the personal memoirs of historians of Jewish origin as true representations of the Holocaust. He claims that an autobiography has the potential to illuminate parts of the entire record of the past, and even to persuade historians that the spotlights of their discipline need to be redirected. These memoirs suggest that historians need to reexamine the question of whether the Holocaust experience necessarily strengthened survivors' sense of Jewish identity and convinced those who lived through it that assimilation was an impossible life strategy.
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