Admitting the Holocaust : collected essays /

Examines the ways in which the Holocaust is portrayed in the arts and history, maintaining that the language used to describe the Holocaust affects society's ability to confront the atrocity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Langer, Lawrence L.
Corporate Author:	Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1900-1999 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect moral. Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Historiographie. Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature. Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Ethics. Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. Literature, Modern. Engels. Holocaust. Judenvernichtung Literatur Rezeption Jüdische Literatur Judeus. Jüdische Literatur. Rezeption. Judenvernichtung. World War 2 > Jews Criticism, interpretation, etc. Nonfiction.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Memory's time: chronology and duration in Holocaust testimonies
Beyond Theodicy: Jewish victims and the Holocaust
A tainted legacy: remembering the Warsaw ghetto
Ghetto chronicles: life at the brink
Cultural resistance to genocide
Understanding atrocity: killers and victims in the Holocaust
Fictional facts and factual fictions: history in Holocaust literature
The literature of Auschwitz
Kafka as Holocaust prophet: a dissenting view
Aharon Appelfeld and the language of sinister silence
Myth and truth in Cynthia Ozick's "The shawl" and "Rosa"
Malamud's Jews and the Holocaust experience
The Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen
What more can be said about the Holocaust?