Truth and lamentation
Subtitle: stories and poems on the Holocaust
By: edited by Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder.
Contributors: Teichman, Milton, 1936-; Leder, Sharon.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
Description: 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.

Gentiles. The contributors include the well known and the as yet unknown. A critical introduction places the selections within two broad categories of literary response to the Holocaust - truthtelling and lamentation. The first reflects the desire of writers to transmit multiple truths; the second expresses sorrow and loss.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-526)
"An Illini book"--P. [4] of cover.