Reading and the holocaust: 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books' : identification and the genre of testimony ; Traces of experience : the texts of testimony ; 'Faithful and doubtful, near and far' : memory, postmemory, and identity ; Holocaust reading : memory and identification in Holocaust fiction, 1990-2003 -- Holocaust metahistories: Against historicism : history, memory, and truth ; 'Are footnotes less barbaric?' : history, memory, and the truth of the Holocaust in the work of Saul Friedländer ; 'What constitutes a historical explanation" : metahistory and the limits of historical explanation in the Goldhagen/Browning controversy ; The metahistory of denial : the Irving/Lipstady libel case and Holocaust denial -- The trace of the Holocaust: Inexhaustible meaning, inextinguishable voices : Levinas and the Holocaust ; Cinders of philosophy, philosophy of cinders : Derrida and the trace of the Holocaust ; The limits of understanding: perpetrator philosophy and philosophical histories ; The postmodern, the Holocaust, and the limits of the human.