Enduring identities : Jewish identity in the Holocaust literature of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2011

'Enduring Identities' is a comparison of the Holocaust literature of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, debating the cultural divide between Jewish communities in the East and West of Europe. Beginning with a historical and theological context, the thesis explores the establishment of the Jewish people, their movement into the Diaspora, the changes of Modernity and the ensuing dichotomy between East and West which created divided Jewish identities. There follows an identification and analysis of a lite