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Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety

Author : David John Dickson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031123948
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety written by David John Dickson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different concepts relating to embodied experience – from Sonia Kruks’ notion of feeling-with to Alison Landsberg’s prosthetic memory – the book analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach the Holocaust impiously.

Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature

Author : Joost Krijnen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316078
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature written by Joost Krijnen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.

New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust

Author : Frédéric Bonnesoeur
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733862
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust written by Frédéric Bonnesoeur and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes of surrounding society, and the world of the victims’ provides the inspiration for this volume. Following in these footsteps, this innovative study approaches Holocaust history through a combination of macro analysis with micro studies. Featuring a range of contemporary research from emerging scholars in the field, this peer-reviewed volume provides detailed engagement with a variety of historical sources, such as documents, artifacts, photos, or text passages. The contributors investigate particular aspects of sound, materiality, space and social perceptions to provide a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, which have often been overlooked or generalised in previous historical research. Yet, as we approach an era of no first hand witnesses, this multidisciplinary, micro-historical approach remains a fundamental aspect of Holocaust research, and can provide a theoretical framework for future studies.

Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film

Author : Matthew Boswell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230358691
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film written by Matthew Boswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.

My Holocaust

Author : Tova Reich
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061842990
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book My Holocaust written by Tova Reich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market it enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance of Nechama, Norman's daughter and Maurice's granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, where she is transformed into a nun, Sister Consolatia of the Cross, deters them from pushing their agenda. Father and son embark on a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which Maurice—now the driving force behind the most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution in America—organizes to soften up a potential major donor, and which Norman takes advantage of to embark on a surrealistic search for his daughter. At the death camp they run into assorted groups and individuals all clamoring for a piece of the Holocaust, including Buddhist New Agers on a retreat, Israeli schoolchildren on a required heritage pilgrimage, a Holocaust artifact hustler, filmmakers, and an astonishing collection of others. All hell breaks loose when Maurice's museum is taken over by a coalition of self-styled victims seeking Holocaust status, bringing together a vivid cast of all-too-human characters, from Holocaust professionals to Holocaust wannabees of every persuasion, in the fevered competition to win the grand prize of owning the Holocaust. An inspiringly courageous and shockingly original tour-de-force, My Holocaust dares to penetrate territory until now considered sacrosanct in its brilliantly provocative and darkly comic exploration of the uses and abuses of memory and the meaning of human suffering.

The Oath

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307833798
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Oath written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and confesses to a crime he did not commit, in a vain attempt to save his people from certain death. The community gathers to hear his last words—a plea for silence—and everyone present takes an oath: whoever survives the impending tragedy must never speak of the town’s last days and nights of terror. For fifty years the sole survivor keeps his oath—until he meets a man whose life depends on hearing the story, and one man’s loyalty to the dead confronts head-on another’s reason to go on living. One of Wiesel’s strongest early novels, this timeless parable about the Jews and their enemies, about hate, family, friendship, and silence, is as powerful, haunting, and significant as it was when first published in 1973.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature

Author : Jenni Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441118098
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature written by Jenni Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genre-specific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material. Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer, Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice.

The Broken Voice

Author : Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084204
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Voice written by Robert Eaglestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertész, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated modern European art for decades'. Robert Eaglestone attends to this broken voice in literature in order to explore the meaning of the Holocaust in the contemporary world, arguing, again following Kertész, that the Holocaust will 'remain through culture, which is really the vessel of memory'. Drawing on the thought of Hannah Arendt, Eaglestone identifies and develops five concepts—the public secret, evil, stasis, disorientalism, and kitsch—in a range of texts by significant writers (including Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Littell, Imre Kertész, W. G. Sebald, and Joseph Conrad) as well as in work by victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and of atrocities in Africa. He explores the interweaving of complicity, responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic powers of narrative which make up some part of the legacy of the Holocaust.

The Broken Vase

Author : Phillip H. McMath
Publisher : Butler Center Books
ISBN 13 : 1935106449
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Vase written by Phillip H. McMath and published by Butler Center Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broken Vase is a roman à clef ("novel with a key," or novel based on real life) written by Phillip H. McMath based upon research done by his co-author, Emily Matson Lewis, and in close collaboration with Holocaust survivor Penina Krupitsky, who appears in the novel as the fictional Miriam Kellerman. With the help of the World Jewish Organization, Mrs. Krupitsky emigrated from the Soviet Union with her family to the United States and now lives in Arkansas. Born to middle-class parents in July 1924 in North Bukovina, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Miriam Kellerman grows up in an atmosphere of culture and privilege that is interrupted when her country is invaded—first by Stalin in July 1940, then by Hitler in June 1941. Fearing for their lives, Jews like Miriam begin to flee into the Soviet Union to escape the German advance. Separated from her parents, Deborah and Max, and later from her fiancé, Isaac, Miriam finds herself alone and on foot, trudging ever eastward. This novel's compelling narrative chronicles her incredible struggle to stay alive as World War II rages. Mrs. Krupitsky lives in Little Rock with her husband, children, and grandchildren. She remains active in Holocaust remembrance organizations around the world and says that she wants The Broken Vase "to help young people and become an inspiration to them. It will teach them how to build a world of love and not of hatred."

The Auschwitz Escape

Author : Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1414336241
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Auschwitz Escape written by Joel C. Rosenberg and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel C. Rosenberg delivers a spellbinding novel about one of the darkest times in human history.

The Eighth Day - Two Jews against The Third Reich

Author : Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tim Bodan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3753417254
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Day - Two Jews against The Third Reich written by Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tim Bodan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can it be that an old box of papers from over 80 years ago, hidden for more than half a century in the attic of a godforsaken old house in east Germany contained all the necessary hints to find the "World Formula" or "Theory of Everything"? Can it be that these papers originally belonged to two Jews, father and son, who were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War? Two Jews, who had already been about to find the "Holy Grail of Science" long before others even thought about this problem. But then, briefly before they could finish their work, had been gasified - like so many others - in Auschwitz. A story by far too horrifying and fascinating to be true? And yet here it is: a book which brings the two things together, the story of the two Jews and the derivation of the "World Formula"...

Blooms of Darkness

Author : Aharon Appelfeld
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805212345
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Blooms of Darkness written by Aharon Appelfeld and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done with her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. But when she’s not mired in self-loathing, Mariana is fiercely protective of the bewildered, painfully polite young boy. And Hugo, in turn, becomes protective of Mariana, trying to make her laugh when she is depressed, and soothing her physical and mental agony with cold compresses. As memories of his family and friends grow dim, Hugo falls in love with Mariana. And as her life spirals downward, Mariana reaches out for consolation to the adoring boy. The arrival of the Russian army sends the prostitutes fleeing, but Mariana is tracked down and arrested as a Nazi collaborator for having slept with the Germans. As the novel moves toward its heartrending conclusion, Aharon Appelfeld once again crafts out of the depths of unfathomable tragedy a renewal of life and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

The Kommandant's Mistress, Revised & Expanded, 20th Anniversary Edition

Author : Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
Publisher : Rockway Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976819653
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Kommandant's Mistress, Revised & Expanded, 20th Anniversary Edition written by Alexandria Constantinova Szeman and published by Rockway Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rumors spread by the Camp's inmates, other Nazi officers, and the Kommandant's own family insist that she was his "mistress," but was she, voluntarily? Told from three different perspectives - that of the formerly idealistic Kommandant, the young Jewish inmate who captivates him, and the ostensibly objective historical biographies of the protagonists - this novel examines one troubling moral question over and over: if your staying alive was the only "good" during the War, if your survival was your sole purpose in this horrific world of the Concentration Camps - whether you were Nazi or Jewish - what, exactly, would you do to survive? Would you lie, cheat, steal, kill, submit? Flashing back and forth through the narrators' memories as they recall their time before, during, and after the War, and leading, inevitably, to their ultimate, shocking confrontation, "Szeman's uncompromising realism and superb use of stream-of-consciousness technique make [this novel] a chilling study of evil, erotic obsession, and the will to survive" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). Winner of the Kafka Prize for "best book of prose fiction by an American woman" ('94) and chosen as one of the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW's "Top 100 Books of the Year" ('93), the tales told by the Kommandant, his "mistress," and their "biographer" will mesmerize and stun you, leaving you wondering, at the conclusion, which, if any, is telling the complete truth about what happened between them.

A Question of Survival

Author : Charles F. D. Egbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468193527
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Survival written by Charles F. D. Egbert and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mario Pastore, an Italian Jew imprisoned in a camp near Auschwitz in 1943, is detailed to work as the orderly in the home of the camp commander, Captain Schmidt, his wife Ingrid and their fragile daughter, Gretchen. Mario and Ingrid form an unlikely alliance as the camp is abandoned by the Nazis. This a compelling story of friendship and compassion born in the midst of brutality--Web site description.

The Shovel and the Loom

Author : Carl Friedman
Publisher : Persea Books
ISBN 13 : 9780892552313
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Shovel and the Loom written by Carl Friedman and published by Persea Books. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaya, the daughter of Holocaust survivors living in Antwerp, is not religious, but soon discovers that she is still bound to her people and her faith

Hope: A Tragedy

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561289
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Hope: A Tragedy written by Shalom Auslander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel… His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.

Jacob's Oath

Author : Martin Fletcher
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9781250054661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Oath written by Martin Fletcher and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest until he has killed his brother's murderer, a concentration camp guard nicknamed "The Rat." Now he must choose between revenge and love, between avenging the past and building a future. Martin Fletcher, who won the National Jewish Book Award for Walking Israel, proved his chops as a novelist with The List, which was selected as the One Book, One Jewish Community title for the city of Philadelphia. Now, in Jacob's Oath, Fletcher brings us another touching novel of love, loyalty, and loss, set in the aftermath of the Holocaust.