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Preempting the Holocaust / Lawrence L. Langer.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PN56.H55 L36 1998

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Langer, Lawrence L.
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
©1998
Contents: Preempting the Holocaust
Legacy in gray : the ordeal of Primo Levi
Gendered suffering : women in Holocaust testimonies
The alarmed vision : social suffering and Holocaust atrocity
Landscapes of Jewish experience : the Holocaust art of Samuel Bak
Two Holocaust voices : Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman
The stage of memory : parents and children in Holocaust texts and testimonies
The inner life of the Kovno ghetto
Undzere Kinder : a Yiddish film from Poland
Wiesenthal's Sunflower dilemma : a response
Opening locked doors : reflections on teaching the Holocaust.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207).

Preempting the Holocaust -- Legacy in gray : the ordeal of Primo Levi -- Gendered suffering : women in Holocaust testimonies -- The alarmed vision : social suffering and Holocaust atrocity -- Landscapes of Jewish experience : the Holocaust art of Samuel Bak -- Two Holocaust voices : Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman -- The stage of memory : parents and children in Holocaust texts and testimonies -- The inner life of the Kovno ghetto -- Undzere Kinder : a Yiddish film from Poland -- Wiesenthal's Sunflower dilemma : a response -- Opening locked doors : reflections on teaching the Holocaust.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Book review (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) Subscription required for access
ISBN: 0300073577
0300082681
Physical Description: xix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art. Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism. Art, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

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