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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2014
      14 November 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139022125
      9781107008656
      9781107401273
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022125
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 321 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European and World Literature: General Interest, European Studies
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    During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a time when the corpus of Holocaust literature has grown to immense proportions and when guidance is needed in determining a canon of essential readings, a context to interpret them, and a paradigm for the evolution of writing on the Holocaust. The expert contributors to this volume, who negotiate the literature in the original languages, provide insight into the influence of national traditions and the importance of language, especially but not exclusively Yiddish and Hebrew, to the literary response arising from the Holocaust.

    Reviews

    'Literature of the Holocaust is an important work. More than an anthology, it is a comprehensive collection of significant essays by distinguished authors, who provide both an overview and deep insights into Holocaust literature in the major languages of the West ordinarily inaccessible to the English reading world … Moreover, it grapples with major issues in Holocaust literature, such as the use of testimony and song, and the use and misuse of history. Each essay provides a rich survey and entry point for the study of Holocaust literature. I thought I knew Holocaust literature well, yet this work has given me years of important reading ahead, for which I am grateful. Comprehensive, consistently excellent, clear and yet also concise … a disquieting work as any good work on the Holocaust must be. It is a work to be cherished.'

    Michael Berenbaum - American Jewish University, Los Angeles

    ‘[This] book is highly recommended for libraries with large Holocaust collections and academic libraries that support Holocaust and/or literature curriculums.’

    Chava Pinchuck Source: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews

    'Highly recommended.'

    Source: Choice

    'In Literature of the Holocaust, contributing authors at once add to this constellation by introducing hitherto untranslated texts to the canon of Holocaust literature; navigate through it by offering geographic and chronological analyses of literary responses to the Holocaust; and gesture towards its immensity.'

    Natalie Woodward Source: Notes and Queries

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Guide to further reading
    Selected critical studies (in chronological order)
    Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
    Halperin, Irving. Messengers from the Dead: Literature of the Holocaust. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970.
    Langer, Lawrence. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
    Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
    Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
    Rosenfeld, Alvin. A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
    Mintz, Alan. Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
    Roskies, David G.Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
    Lang, Berel, ed. Writing and the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988.
    Skloot, Robert. The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
    Young, James. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
    Aaron, Frieda. Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in Ghettos and Concentration Camps. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
    Felman, Shoshana and Laub, Dori. Testimony: Crises in Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.
    Hartman, Geoffrey. The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
    Horowitz, Sara. Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
    Gubar, Susan. Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
    Kremer, S. Lillian, ed. Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. New York: Routledge, 2003.
    Rosen, Alan. Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
    Suleiman, Susan. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
    Kassow, Samuel. Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
    Rothberg, Michael. Multidimensional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford University Press, 2009.
    Spargo, R. Clifton and Ehrenreich, Robert M., eds. After Representation: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
    Lothe, Jakob, Suleiman, Susan Rubin, and Phelan, James, eds. After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
    Roskies, David and Diamant, Naomi. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013.

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