Title: Truth and lamentation : stories and poems on the Holocaust /
Authors: Teichman, Milton, 1936-; Leder, Sharon.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Literary collections
Abstract: The stories and poems in Truth and Lamentation, written during and after the Holocaust, reveal the human faces hidden behind the all-too-familiar statistics of the event. International in scope, this volume brings together 20 short stories and 90 poems commenting on the essentially incomprehensible nature of the Holocaust. Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder have drawn from a remarkably varied range of writers, representing nine languages and including both Jews and.
Contents: Theresienstadt / Myra Sklarew -- September Song / Geoffrey Hill -- Lament for the European Exile / A.L. Strauss -- To the Six Million / Irving Feldman -- At the Rim of the Heavens / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- How They Killed My Grandmother / Boris Slutsk.