Breaking crystal : writing and memory after Auschwitz / edited by Efraim Sicher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sicher, Efraim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Israeli literature--History and criticism.

Israeli literature.

Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of--History and criticism.

Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of.

Physical Description:

378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]

Contents:

The burden of memory : the writing of the post-Holocaust generation / Efraim Sicher

Transgenerational after-effects of the Holocaust in Israel : three generations / Dan Bar-On

The formation of Holocaust consciousness in the state of Israel : the early days / Hanna Yablonka

Personal fears and national nightmares : the Holocaust complex in Israeli cinema / Ilan Avisar

Inherited fear : second-generation poets and novelists in Israel / Hanna Yaoz

Holocaust trauma in the second-generation : the Hebrew fiction of David Grossman and Savyon Liebrecht / Leon I. Yudkin

Transmission of memory : the post-Holocaust generation in the Diaspora / Ellen S. Fine

Mediums of memory : artistic responses of the second generation / Stephen C. Feinstein

Bearing witness : theological implications of second-generation literature in America / Alan L. Berger

Auto/biography and fiction after Auschwitz : probing the boundaries of second-generation aesthetics / Sara R. Horowitz

The Holocaust in the postmodernist era / Efraim Sicher

Acknowledging the Holocaust in contemporary American fiction and criticism / Emily Miller Budick

Afterword : the Shoah between memory and history / Saul Friedländer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252022807

0252066561

OCLC:

36485790