Author: Leon I. Yudkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Discusses literary works in several languages by survivors and by members of the second and third generations. Parts of the book were published previously in different forms. Includes chapters on Ka-Tzetnik, Abba Kovner, Savyon Liebrecht, David Grossman, Jerzy Kosinski, and Primo Levi; the first and last chapters deal with general issues and later writers.
Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust
Author: Leon I. Yudkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Discusses literary works in several languages by survivors and by members of the second and third generations. Parts of the book were published previously in different forms. Includes chapters on Ka-Tzetnik, Abba Kovner, Savyon Liebrecht, David Grossman, Jerzy Kosinski, and Primo Levi; the first and last chapters deal with general issues and later writers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Discusses literary works in several languages by survivors and by members of the second and third generations. Parts of the book were published previously in different forms. Includes chapters on Ka-Tzetnik, Abba Kovner, Savyon Liebrecht, David Grossman, Jerzy Kosinski, and Primo Levi; the first and last chapters deal with general issues and later writers.
The Longest Shadow
Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Distinguished literary scholar Geoffrey H. Hartman, himself forced to leave Germany at age nine, collects his essays, both scholarly and personal, that focus on the Holocaust. Hartman contends that although progress has been made, we are only beginning to understand the horrendous events of 1933 to 1945. The continuing struggle for meaning, consolation, closure, and the establishment of a collective memory against the natural tendency toward forgetfulness is a recurring theme. The many forms of response to the devastation - from historical research and survivors' testimony to the novels, films, and monuments that have appeared over the last fifty years - reflect and inform efforts to come to grips with the past, despite events (like those at Bitburg) that attempt to foreclose it. The stricture that poetry after Auschwitz is ""barbaric"" is countered by the increased sense of responsibility incumbent on the creators of these works.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Distinguished literary scholar Geoffrey H. Hartman, himself forced to leave Germany at age nine, collects his essays, both scholarly and personal, that focus on the Holocaust. Hartman contends that although progress has been made, we are only beginning to understand the horrendous events of 1933 to 1945. The continuing struggle for meaning, consolation, closure, and the establishment of a collective memory against the natural tendency toward forgetfulness is a recurring theme. The many forms of response to the devastation - from historical research and survivors' testimony to the novels, films, and monuments that have appeared over the last fifty years - reflect and inform efforts to come to grips with the past, despite events (like those at Bitburg) that attempt to foreclose it. The stricture that poetry after Auschwitz is ""barbaric"" is countered by the increased sense of responsibility incumbent on the creators of these works.
After Representation?
Author: R. Clifton Spargo
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813548152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813548152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.
Laughter After
Author: David Slucki
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Laughter After will appeal to a number of audiences—from students and scholars of Jewish and Holocaust studies to academics and general readers with an interest in media and performance studies.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Laughter After will appeal to a number of audiences—from students and scholars of Jewish and Holocaust studies to academics and general readers with an interest in media and performance studies.
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Author: Han Nolan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046798
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A neo-Nazi teen is transported back in time to World War II Poland, where she is now a Jewish girl in a Nazi ghetto.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046798
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A neo-Nazi teen is transported back in time to World War II Poland, where she is now a Jewish girl in a Nazi ghetto.
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Author: Ida Fink
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
Plunder
Author: Menachem Kaiser
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 132850803X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 132850803X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows
Alex's Wake
Author: Martin Goldsmith
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306823233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, “the saddest ship afloat” (New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the St. Louis returned to Europe, a stark symbol of the world's indifference to the gathering Holocaust. The Goldschmidts disembarked in France, where they spent the next three years in six different camps before being shipped to their deaths in Auschwitz. In the spring of 2011, Alex's grandson, Martin Goldsmith, followed in his relatives' footsteps on a six-week journey of remembrance and hope, an irrational quest to reverse their fate and bring himself peace. Alex's Wake movingly recounts the detailed histories of the two journeys, the witnesses Martin encounters for whom the events of the past are a vivid part of a living present, and an intimate, honest attempt to overcome a tormented family legacy.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306823233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, “the saddest ship afloat” (New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the St. Louis returned to Europe, a stark symbol of the world's indifference to the gathering Holocaust. The Goldschmidts disembarked in France, where they spent the next three years in six different camps before being shipped to their deaths in Auschwitz. In the spring of 2011, Alex's grandson, Martin Goldsmith, followed in his relatives' footsteps on a six-week journey of remembrance and hope, an irrational quest to reverse their fate and bring himself peace. Alex's Wake movingly recounts the detailed histories of the two journeys, the witnesses Martin encounters for whom the events of the past are a vivid part of a living present, and an intimate, honest attempt to overcome a tormented family legacy.
The Archive Thief
Author: Lisa Moses Leff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019938097X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist. In the late 1930s, as he saw the threats to Jewish safety rising in Europe, he broke with the party and committed himself to defending his people in a new way, as a scholar associated with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Following a harrowing 1941 escape from France and U.S. army service, Szajkowski struggled to remake his life as a historian, eking out a living as a YIVO archivist in postwar New York. His scholarly output was tremendous nevertheless; he published scores of studies on French Jewish history that opened up new ways of thinking about Jewish emancipation, modernization, and the rise of modern antisemitism. But underlying Szajkowski's scholarly accomplishments were the documents he stole, moved, and eventually sold to American and Israeli research libraries, where they remain today. Part detective story, part analysis of the construction of history, The Archive Thief offers a window into the debates over the rightful ownership of contested Jewish archives and the powerful ideological, economic, and psychological forces that have made Jewish scholars care so deeply about preserving the remnants of their past.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019938097X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist. In the late 1930s, as he saw the threats to Jewish safety rising in Europe, he broke with the party and committed himself to defending his people in a new way, as a scholar associated with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Following a harrowing 1941 escape from France and U.S. army service, Szajkowski struggled to remake his life as a historian, eking out a living as a YIVO archivist in postwar New York. His scholarly output was tremendous nevertheless; he published scores of studies on French Jewish history that opened up new ways of thinking about Jewish emancipation, modernization, and the rise of modern antisemitism. But underlying Szajkowski's scholarly accomplishments were the documents he stole, moved, and eventually sold to American and Israeli research libraries, where they remain today. Part detective story, part analysis of the construction of history, The Archive Thief offers a window into the debates over the rightful ownership of contested Jewish archives and the powerful ideological, economic, and psychological forces that have made Jewish scholars care so deeply about preserving the remnants of their past.
After the Holocaust
Author: Howard Greenfeld
Publisher: Greenwillow
ISBN: 9780060294205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Eight Jewish men and women who survived the Holocaust as children talk about their experiences immediately following the war.
Publisher: Greenwillow
ISBN: 9780060294205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Eight Jewish men and women who survived the Holocaust as children talk about their experiences immediately following the war.