Writing and the Holocaust

Name: Writing and the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780841911857

ISBN-10: 0841911851

ISBN-13: 9780841911857

Edition: 1988

Authors: Berel Lang, Aharon Appelfeld

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In this extraordinary collection of essays, historians, novelists and philosophers ponder the imponderable: Was the effort to exterminate the Jewish people a unique historic event or does it fit into a larger context? Is there justification for creating Holocaust fiction? Is humour an appropriate tool in Holocaust literature? Must a work about the Holocaust have redemptive value? With some exceptions, the essays were presented as papers at a 1987 conference at SUNY Albany. Among the participants were Saul Friedlander, Raul Hilberg and Aharon Appelfeld. Although a few contributions are oppressively intellectual, many brilliantly interweave anecdotes and issues to arrive at insights into the…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction by Berel Lang



Raul Hilberg I Was Not There



Lawrence Langer Interpreting Survivor Testimony



The Absent Memory: The Act of Writing in Post-Holocaust French Literature



Lore Segal Memory: The Problems of Imagining the Past



Saul Friedlï¿½nder Historical Writing and the Memory of the Holocaust


Part ï¿½ II the Representation of Evil



Aharon Appelfeld After the Holocaust



Philip Hallie Writing About Ethical Ambivalence During the Holocaust



Kenneth Seeskin Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma



William Heyen Unwilled """"Chaos"""": In Poem We Trust



Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi Considering the Apocalypse: Is the Writing on the Wall Only Graffiti?



George Steiner the Long Life of Metaphor: An Approach to the """"Shoah""""



Irving Howe Writing and the Holocaust



James E. Young Holocaust Documentary Fiction: The Novelist as Eyewitness



Terrence Des Pres Holocaust Laughter?



Howard Needler Red Fire Upon Black Fire: Hebrew in the Holocaust Novels of K. Tsetnik



Berel Lang Writing-The-Holocaust: Jabï¿½s and the Measure of History



Leslie Epstein Writing About the Holocaust


Roundtable Discussion


Raul Hilberg


Cynthia Ozick


Aharon Appelfeld


Saul Friedlï¿½nder


Notes on Contributors


Index