Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Reflections on Memory and Imagination

Name: Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Reflections on Memory and Imagination
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ISBN: 9780674072893

ISBN-10: 0674072898

ISBN-13: 9780674072893

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Authors: Otto Dov Kulka, Ralph Mandel

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Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical, in a devastating, at times poetic, account of the concentration camps and the private mythology one man constructed around his experiences.Auschwitz is for the author a vast repository of images, memories, and reveries: “the Metropolis of Death” over which rules the immutable Law of Death. Between 1991 and 2001, Kulka made audio recordings of these memories as they welled up, and in Landscapes of the Metropolis of…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Otto Dov Kulkais Rosenbloom Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Eberhard Jäckelis Professor Emeritus of History, University of Stuttgart.



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death



A Prologue that Could Also Be an Epilogue



Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz



Final Liquidation of the 'Family Camp'



Autumn 1944: Auschwitz - Ghostly Metropolis



Observations and Perplexities about Scenes in the Memory



Three Poems from the Brink of the Gas Chambers



Journey to the Satellite City of the Metropolis of Death



Landscapes of a Private Mythology



Rivers which Cannot Be Crossed and the 'Gate of the Law'



In Search of History and Memory


Three Chapters from the Diaries



Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death



Doctor Mengele Frozen in Time



God's Grieving


Appendix: Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp: Jewish Social History in the Holocaust Period and its Ultimate Limits


List of Illustrations


Notes