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When Memory Comes The Classic Memoir

Saul Friedländer

A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud

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The hosts explained that a quote about knowledge and memory, which had been misattributed to another author, actually originated from this 1979 Holocaust memoir. They clarified the correct source and noted the earlier mistake in attribution. The discussion served mainly to correct the record rather than to endorse the work.

Episode: 24. Why Do We Forget So Much of What We’ve Read?

This book was mistakenly recalled by Stephen as a biography of Ring Lardner's author, but the quote he remembered about knowledge and memory being one and the same was actually from this 1979 Holocaust memoir, which itself referenced another work.

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But the quote I remember was something along the lines of, With knowledge comes memory, for knowledge and memory are one and the same.

Stephen thought that the quote came from Helmrich's 1976 book, Wake Up, Wake Up, to do the work of the creator. But he was actually thinking about Israeli historian Saul Friedlander's 1979 Holocaust memoir, When Memory Comes.

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