Literature of the Holocaust

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During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a time when the corpus of Holocaust literature has grown to immense proportions and when guidance is needed in determining a canon of essential readings, a context to interpret them, and a paradigm for the evolution of writing on the Holocaust. The expert contributors to this volume, who negotiate the literature in the original languages, provide insight into the influence of national traditions and the importance of language, especially but not exclusively Yiddish and Hebrew, to the literary response arising from the Holocaust. frontmatter contents notes on contributors acknowl introduction p1 ch1 ch2 p2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 ch8 ch9 ch10 ch11 p3 ch12 ch13 ch14 ch15 ch16 guide-to-further-reading indx Пустая страница