Generating the Generations

This chapter focuses on the idea of memory in order to understand how Jewish crafters generate memory through their creations. It studies the role of Holocaust memory in crafting, the use of heirloom fabrics in making family treasures, and the complex ways the ethnographer herself became enmeshed in networks of memory. The author also analyses Louise Silk’s work on memory quilts and attends to the way fabric “holds” memory. Ultimately, the members of the Pomegranate Guild and other interviewees seek ways of maintaining Jewish legacies not only in words, but also in thread.