Admitting the Holocaust
Subtitle: collected essays
By: Lawrence L. Langer.
Edition: 1st Oxford University Press paperback ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780195106480
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Memory's time : chronology and duration in Holocaust testimonies; title: Beyond theodicy : Jewish victims and the Holocaust; title: A tainted legacy : remembering the Warsaw ghetto; title: Ghetto chronicles : life at the brink; title: Cultural resistance to genocide; title: Understanding atrocity : killers and victims in the Holocaust; title: Fictional facts and factual fictions : history in Holocaust literature; title: The literature of Auschwitz; title: Kafka as Holocaust prophet : a dissenting view; title: Aharon Appelfeld and the language of sinister silence; title: Myth and truth in Cynthia Ozick's "The shawl" and "Rosa"; title: Malamud's Jews and the Holocaust experience; title: The Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen; title: What more can be said about the Holocaust?