Writing and the Holocaust / edited by Berel Lang ; [contributors, Aharon Appelfeld ... and others].

Includes bibliographies and index.

I was not there / Raul Hilberg -- Interpreting survivor testimony / Lawrence Langer -- The absent memory : the act of writing in post-Holocaust French literature / Ellen S. Fine -- Memory : the problems of imagining the past / Lore Segal -- Historical writing and the memory of the Holocaust / Saul Friedländer -- After the Holocaust / Aharon Appelfeld -- Writing about ethical ambivalence during the Holocaust / Philip Hallie -- Coming to terms with failure : a philosophical dilemma / Kenneth Seeskin -- Unwilled "Chaos" : in poem we trust / William Heyen -- Considering the apocalypse : is the writing on the wall only graffiti? / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The long life of metaphor : an approach to the "Shoah" / George Steiner -- Writing and the Holocaust / Irving Howe -- Holocaust documentary fiction : the novelist as eyewitness / James E. Young -- Holocaust laughter? / Terrence Des Pres -- Red fire upon black fire : Hebrew in the Holocaust novels of K. Tsetnik / Howard Needler -- Writing-the-Holocaust : Jabès and the measure of history / Berel Lang -- Writing about the Holocaust / Leslie Epstein.