Witness Through the Imagination : Jewish American Holocaust Literature /
Criticism of Holocaust literature is an emerging field of inquiry, and as might be expected, the most innovative work has been concentrated on the vanguard of European and Israeli Holocaust literature. Now that American fiction has amassed an impressive and provocative Holocaust canon, the time is p...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Scars of Outrage: The Holocaust in The Victim and Mr. Sammler's Planet; Chapter Two: From Buchenwald to Harlem: The Holocaust Universe of The Pawnbroker; Chapter Three: Seekers and Survivors: The Holocaust-Haunted Fiction of Bernard Malamud; Chapter Four: Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz Ghetto in Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews; Chapter Five: The Trial of the Damned: Richard Elman's Holocaust Trilogy; Chapter Six: Kaddish and Resurrection: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Holocaust Memorial
- Chapter Seven: The Dybbuk of All the Lost Dead: Cynthia Ozick's Holocaust FictionChapter Eight: Eternal Faith, Eternal People: The Holocaust and Redemption in Arthur A. Cohen's In the Days of Simon Stern; Chapter Nine: Eternal Light: The Holocaust and the Revival of Judaism and Jewish Civilization in the Fiction of Chaim Potok; Chapter Ten: Nazism on Trial: The Holocaust Fiction of George Steiner; Conclusion; Notes; Index