The History of Love is the second work of the emerging Jewish American writer Nicole Krauss,which tells the story of the cultural memory crisis of two generations of Holocaust witnesses and Jewish immigrant descendants under the influence of the Holo-caust.Under the representation of cultural memory in the symbolic system,ritual system,and textual system,Nicole Krauss presents the avoidance and loss of cultural memory,restoration and inheritance of Holocaust survivors and their Jewish descendants,as well as the pursuit and identification of Jewish culture in this process,guiding readers to re-examine and reflect on the reconstruction of cultur-al identity.