Witnessing the disaster : essays on representation and the Holocaust / edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : representations of the Holocaust and the end of memory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer -- The Holocaust as vicarious past : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the afterimages of history / James E. Young -- "The language of dollars" : multilingualism and the claims of English in Hasidic tales of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- A pedagogy of trauma (or a crisis of cynicism) : teaching, writing, and the Holocaust / Janet Alsup -- The "erotics of Auschwitz" : coming of age in The painted bird and Sophie's choice / Sharon Oster -- Maus and the epistemology of witness / Richard Glejzer -- Promiscuous reading : the problem of indentification and Anne Frank's Diary / Susan David Bernstein -- Humboldt's gift and Jewish American self-fashioning "after Auschwitz" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy -- Mormon literature and the irreducible other : writing the unspeakable in Holocaust literature / Reinhold Hill -- Beyond the question of authenticity : witness and testimony in the Fragments controversy / Michael Bernard-Donals -- Maurice Blanchot : fighting spirit / Geoffrey Hartman -- Shoah and the origins of teaching / David Metzger -- Teaching (after) Auschwitz : pedagogy between redemption and sublimity / Michael Bernard-Donls and Richard Glejzer -- Approaching limit events : siting Agamben / Dominick LaCapra.