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1	The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination more books like this by Professor Lawrence L Langer add to wishlist see all copies from $2.48! new only from $23.50! \| first editions
2	Reading the Holocaust more books like this by Inga Clendinnen add to wishlist Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.91! \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the "Diary" more books like this by Lawrence Graver add to wishlist Graver examines Meyer Levin's 30-year obsession with "The Diary of Anne Frank." Levin collaborated with Anne's father, Otto, to bring the diary to an American audience. However, disputes and disagreements between them turned to litigation and scandal. This book is based on numerous previously unpublished documents and interviews with the principal ... see all copies from $2.71! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation more books like this by James Edward Young add to wishlist Offers a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography. see all copies from $5.94! new only from $21.92! \| SVS
5	Teaching Holocaust Literature more books like this by Samuel Totten (Editor) add to wishlist Teaching Holocaust Literature is comprised of eleven essays in which noted Holocaust educators discuss how they have successfully taught poetry, novels, drama, and memoirs to their students at the secondary level. The text provides in-depth discussions of individual pieces of Holocaust literature and how to teach them in a pedagogically and ... see all copies from $21.51! new only from $50.00!
6	Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution" more books like this by Saul Friedlander (Editor) add to wishlist Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, 20 scholars probe the moral, epistemological and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror. Christopher Browning, ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $40.38! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century more books like this by Alvin H Rosenfeld (Editor) add to wishlist More than fifty years after the end of World War II, how do we look back upon and understand the nature and consequences of that catastrophic event? What kind of historical consciousness has developed over the past half century with respect to the Nazi destruction of European Jewry? These questions are explored by a distinguished international ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Literature of the Holocaust more books like this by Harold Bloom add to wishlist Examines the literature that marks the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century and offers critical analysis by such contributors as Thomas A. Idinopulos, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, and Amy Hungerford. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.17!
9	Preempting the Holocaust more books like this by Professor Lawrence L Langer add to wishlist An exploration of the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors that Langer examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak, the Holocaust painter, and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.66! \| first editions
10	A Introduction to Holocaust Studies more books like this by Michael Bernard-Donals add to wishlist For courses in Holocaust Studies. This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust--through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the different ways we have come to understand the Holocaust, gives them an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions ... see all copies from $28.40! new only from $42.83!
11 view cover	Imagining the Holocaust more books like this by Daniel R. Schwarz add to wishlist In this examination of Holocaust literature--both firsthand accounts and works of fiction--the author focuses on how writers have viewed the Holocaust and how different groups have responded to such works as Elie Wiesel's NIGHT and Art Spiegelman's MAUS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature more books like this by Sidra Ezrahi add to wishlist The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in "By Words Alone," is a body of literature that ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches more books like this by Samantha Baskind (Editor), Ranen Omer-Sherman (Editor) add to wishlist "The Jewish Graphic Novel" is a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industry - such as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfar - the essays focus on how graphic novels are ... see all copies from $88.80! new only from $88.80!
14 view cover	Words & Witness: Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies in the Representation of the Holocaust more books like this by Lea Wernick Fridman add to wishlist Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $2.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory more books like this by Christopher Bigsby add to wishlist This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $22.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary more books like this by Mr. Ralph Melnick add to wishlist An account of the editing and publication of Anne Frank's famous "Diary of a Young Girl", and of the further intrigues that surrounded the composition and production of the Broadway play based upon it. The author explicates the long feud between Anne Frank's father, Otto, and the writer Meyer Levin, who believed that the rights to the diary ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $17.73! \| first editions
17 view cover	Writing and the Holocaust more books like this by Berel Lang add to wishlist In this extraordinary collection of essays, historians, novelists and philosophers ponder the imponderable: Was the effort to exterminate the Jewish people a unique historic event or does it fit into a larger context; Is there justification for creating Holocaust fiction; Is humour an appropriate tool in Holocaust literature; Must a work about the ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation more books like this by Zoe V Waxman add to wishlist Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to today's survivors writing as part ... see all copies from $26.99! new only from $26.99! \| SVS
19 view cover	Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew more books like this by Professor Susan Gubar add to wishlist In this path-breaking study Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, North American and British writers struggled to keep its memory alive. Many ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $22.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust more books like this by Vivian M Patraka add to wishlist "Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism and the Holocaust" considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to reflect larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. In her introduction, 'Theorizing a Holocaust Performative', Patraka ... see all copies from $2.02! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Curriculum and the Holocaust more books like this by Marla Morris add to wishlist This study uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Marla Morris argues that history is the systematization of memory and examines the way that the Holocaust is represented in historical texts and in novels. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $48.96! \| SVS
22	Darkness We Carry more books like this by Robert Skloot add to wishlist see all copies from $3.27! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence more books like this by Gillian Banner add to wishlist see all copies from $18.95! new only from $28.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust more books like this by Elizabeth Roberts Baer (Editor), Myrna Goldenberg (Editor) add to wishlist Despite the fact that Holocaust studies is now a mature field, the topic of women and the Holocaust remains unexplored. Women's voices have given rise to many powerful accounts of the Holocaust, and yet few researchers have analysed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular. In "Experience and Expression" ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $41.26!
25 view cover	Anne Frank and After: Dutch Holocaust Literature in a Historical Perspective more books like this by Rolf Wolfswinkel, D Van Galen Last, Dick Van Last Galen add to wishlist Between 1940 and 1945, 110,000 of the 140,000 Dutch Jews were deported to the death camps in Eastern Europe. 80% never returned. In Anne Frank and After the authors focus on two main questions: how exactly did this happen, and how has Dutch literature come to terms with this appalling event? In the book's final chapter they analyze the ... see all copies from $3.61! new only from $12.63! \| first editions \| SVS

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	Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Professor Lawrence L Langer see all from $1.99! new only from $6.00!
	Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. by Primo Levi see all from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
	A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination by Michael L Morgan (Editor) see all from $18.95! new only from $38.95!
	Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Professor Lawrence L Langer see all from $2.56! new only from $25.95!
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