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Between witness and testimony : the Holocaust and the limits of representation / Michael Bernard-Donals, Richard Glejzer.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: D804.3 .B4445 2001

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Bernard-Donals, Michael F.
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
©2001
Contents: Sublimity, redemption, witness
History and the disaster : the (im)possibility of writing the Shoah
The epistemology of witness : survivor narratives and the Holocaust
Literatures of presence and absence : Borowski, Appelfeld, Ozick
Film and the Shoah : the limits of seeing
Museums and the imperative of memory : history, sublimity, and the divine
Conclusion : the ethics of teaching (after) Auschwitz.
Other Authors/Editors: Glejzer, Richard R.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.

Sublimity, redemption, witness -- History and the disaster : the (im)possibility of writing the Shoah -- The epistemology of witness : survivor narratives and the Holocaust -- Literatures of presence and absence : Borowski, Appelfeld, Ozick -- Film and the Shoah : the limits of seeing -- Museums and the imperative of memory : history, sublimity, and the divine -- Conclusion : the ethics of teaching (after) Auschwitz.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest Ebook Central
ISBN: 0791451496
079145150X
Physical Description: xx, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--History and criticism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

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