Witness through the imagination : Jewish-American holocaust literature / S. Lillian Kremer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kremer, S. Lillian, 1939-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Jewish authors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

United States.

Intellectual life.

Jews in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 392 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Contents:

Scars of Outrage: the Holocaust in "The Victim" and "Mr. Sammler's Planet'

From Buchenwald to Harlem: The Holocaust universe of "The Pawnbroker"

Seekers and Survivors: The Holocaust-haunted fiction of Bernard Malamud

Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz Ghetto in Leslie Epstein's "King of the Jews"

The Trial of the Damned: Richard Elman's Holocaust Trilogy

Kaddish and Resurrection: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Holocaust Memorial

The Dybbuk of All the Lost Dead: Cynthia Ozick's Holocaust fiction

Eternal Faith, Eternal People: The Holocaust and Redemption in Arthur A. Cohen's "The the Days of Simon Stern"

Eternal Light: The Holocaust and the revival of Judaism and Jewish civilization in the fiction of Chaim Potok

Nazism on Trial: the Holocaust fiction of George Steiner.

Notes:

"Ozick, Elman Cohen, Potok, Singer, Epstein, Bellow, Steiner, Wallant, Malamud"--P. [2].

"The manuscript was edited for publication by Jana Currie Scott."

"The typeface for the text is Baskerville and the display is Palatino Bold. The book is printed on 55-lb Glatfelter text paper and is bound in Holliston Mills' Roxite Linen."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

081432116X

0814321178

OCLC:

18948778