Imagery from Genesis in Holocaust memoirs
Subtitle: a critical study
By: Deborah Lee Prescott
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786448173
Description: "In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of survivors. Three main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion, the contextual history of the Holocaust, and Midrashic considerations that arise from biblical reference"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Genesis and genocide : the Holocaust, autobiography, and Midrash; title: Paradise lost, innocence lost; title: God's ark and Hitler's cattle car; title: The Babel of extermination; title: Akeda : the perversity of silence; title: Israel in Auschwitz : a malediction forbidding mourning; title: Fratricide.