CONTENTS

1 Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21^st Century

Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner

Part I Memoir

2 Elie Wiesel's Quarrel with God

Alan L. Berger

3 Primo Levi's Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved

Anthony C. Wexler

4 What We Learn, At Last: Recounting Sexuality in Women's Deferred Autobiographies and Testimonies

Sara R. Horowitz

Part II Fiction

5 Ghetto in Flames: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Early Postwar Jewish Fiction Avinoam Patt

6 The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife, and See Under: Love

Naomi Sokoloff

7 When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature

Joanna Krongold

8 Jewish Boys on the Run: The Revision of Boyhood in Holocaust Fiction and Film

Phyllis Lassner

9 "I sometimes thought I was listening to myself" Identity-Deliberation after the Holocaust in Chaim Grade's "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner"

Megan V. Reynolds

10 "The Relatedness of the Unrelatable" The Holocaust as Trope in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood

Paule Lévy

11 The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf

Alan Astro

12 Edgar Hilsenrath's Novels: Der Nazi & der Friseur and Berlin... Endstation

Till Kinzel

13 Transit and Transfer: Between Germany and Israel in the Granddaughters' Generation

Ashley Passmore

14 Holocaust Memories and Polish Catholic Identity: Cultural Transmutations of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Rachel F. Brenner

15 Post-Soviet Migrant Memory of the Holocaust

Karolina Krasuska

16 Vasily Grossman and Anatoly Rybakov: Soviet Sources of Historical Memory of the Holocaust

Alexis Pogorelskin

17 Refractions of Holocaust Memory in Stanislaw Lem's Science Fiction

Richard Middleton-Kaplan

Part III Poetry

18 Poetry of Witness and Poetry of Commentary: Responses to the Holocaust in Russian Verse

Marat Grinberg

19 "At Last to a Condition of Dignity" Anthony Hecht's Holocaust Poetry

David Caplan

20 Wound Marks in the Air and the Shadows Within: A Poetic

Author: Victoria Aarons
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/25/2021
Pages: 840
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9783030334307

About the Author

Victoria Aarons is O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan Berger) (2017), The New Jewish American Literary Studies (2019), and Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (2019).

Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA. Her publications include British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (1998). She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2017).

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture