Tedlock's words and icons connect to tell stories. They are an anthropologist's stories, a poets's stories, stories of the place where anthropology dwells. In the continuing production of books concerning the Holocaust, Truth and Lamentation succeeds strongly in filling a need. Until recent times, we have lacked a convenient and affordable single volume that brings together fiction from various traditions and languages and concentrates on the undeniably highest literary standards. Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder collect 20 relatively short stories and 90 poems by a full range of men and women, survivors and victims, Jews and Gentiles, famous and little-known.
Translations appear from Polish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
The editors include a long introduction that is itself a valuable source of literary standards and observations on the necessity for a first-rate new collection such as theirs. In her first published collection, Terris confronts her fears. An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era. Of considerable literary and sociological value and interest .