This essay explores the unavoidable transfer of ethical accountability to Holocaust perpetrator descendants, as seen in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. Building upon Maurice Halbwachs’s theory of collective memory and Marianne Hirsch’s theory of postmemory, this essay hypothesizes that Foer uses physical, metaphorical, and structural strings to transfer memories across generations and transmit repercussions such as judgment, guilt, and accountability to perpetrator descendants, a group frequently neglected in Holocaust research. This analysis expands the current scholarly conversation regarding post-Holocaust moral responsibility and demonstrates its transmission to later generations.

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记忆之弦：乔纳森·萨夫兰·福尔的《一切都被照亮》中的记忆转移和道德责任

这篇文章探讨了道德责任不可避免地转移给大屠杀肇事者的后代，正如 Jonathan Safran Foer 的《一切都被照亮》中所见。基于 Maurice Halbwachs 的集体记忆理论和 Marianne Hirsch 的后记忆理论，本文假设 Foer 使用物理的、隐喻的和结构性的字符串来跨代传递记忆，并将判断、内疚和责任等影响传递给犯罪者的后代，一个群体在大屠杀研究中经常被忽视。这一分析扩展了当前关于大屠杀后道德责任的学术对话，并展示了其对后代的传播。