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General Introduction: On Reading Holocaust Literature | |
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The Way it Was | |
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One Year in Treblinka from The Death Camp in Treblinka: A Documentary | |
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Extermination Camp from "The Good Old Days"; The Holocaust and Seen By Its Perpetrators and Bystanders | |
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"But Lidice is in Europe!" from Terezin | |
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"Conversation with a Dead Man" from ir Haben Es Gesehen | |
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"Voices" from Days and Memory | |
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"One Day in Jozefow: Initiation to Mass Murder" from Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World | |
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"Shame" from The Drowned and the Saved | |
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"Torture" from At the Mind's Limits | |
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"A Plea for the Dead" from Legends of Our Time | |
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Journals and Diaries (Introduction) | |
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"Diary of the Great Deportation" from A Cup of Tears; A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Langer (Holocaust Anthology) | |
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"Days of Nightmare" from Lucy S.Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader | |
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"Memoir" from Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary | |
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Fiction (Introduction) | |
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"The Key Game," "A Spring Morning" from A Scrap of Time and Other Stories | |
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"Bread" From Midstream | |
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"The Last Morning" from Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust | |
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Tzili | |
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"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen | |
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"Infinity" from Street of Lost Brothers | |
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"The Crystal Stream" from Ascent to Heaven, Adolf Rudnicki | |
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"Lieutenant Boulanger" from Attendance List for a Funeral | |
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"Resurrection" from Soul of Wood | |
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"Season of the Dead" from Beasts and Men and The Seed | |
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Drama (Introduction) | |
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Poetry (Introduction) | |
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"War," "Faces in Swamps,"(I-V) "My every breath is a curse." "How?" "Grains of Wheat," "Stalks," "Frozen Jews," "Resurrection," "Black Thorns" from A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose "In a Cell," "For My Child," "Burnt Pearls," "Poem About A Herring," "Self-Portrait" from Burnt Pearls: Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever | |
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"Autobiography," "Europe, Late," "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car," "The Roll Call," "Testimony," "Instruction for Crossing the Border,"Draft of a Reparations Agreement," "Footprints," "Ready for Parting" from Points of Departure | |
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"Death Fugue," "Aspen Tree," "With a Variable Key," "Nocturnally Pouting," "Tenebrae," "There Was Earth Inside Them," "Psalm," "Alchemical," "Radix, Matrix," "Tabernacle Window," " ...And No Kind Of" from Paul Celan: Poems "From Things Lost," "Sound-Dead Sister-Shell," "In the Corner of Time," "From the Beam" from Last Poems | |
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"War Diary," "Il Faut Laisser...," "Guard and Protect Me," "In A Troubled Hour," "Like Death," "Floral Song," "The Fifth Eclogue (fragment)," "O Ancient Prisons," "Dreamscape," "Fragment," "Root," "A la Recherche...," "Forced March," "Razglednicas" from Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Fredrick Turner, eds., Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti | |
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"O the night of the weeping children!" "Even the old men's last breath," "What secret cravings of the blood," "You onlookers," "If I only new," "Chorus of the Rescued," "Chorus of the Unborn," "Night, night," "If the prophets broke in," "O the homeless colors of the evening sky!" "In the evening your vision widens," "Peoples of the earth," "Land | |