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The memory monster : a novel / Yishai Sarid ; translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan.
Van Pelt Library PJ5055.4.A69 M5413 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarid, Yishay, 1965- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mifletzet ha-zikaron. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--Fiction.
- Historians.
- Atrocities--Psychological aspects.
- Atrocities.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Atrocities--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Concentration camp inmates--Fiction.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Internment camp inmates.
- Death--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- Death.
- Atrocities--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates.
- Israel--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 169 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First Restless Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English. Translated from the Hebrew.
- Summary:
- "The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. The job becomes a mission, and then an addiction. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the mass murder committed by the Germans. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers--their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill."--Provided by publisher.
- Our narrator is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers-- their efficiency, audacity, and determination. -- adapted from jacket
- Notes:
- "First published as Mifletzet ha-zikaron by Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2017"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781632062710
- 1632062712
- OCLC:
- 1140717077
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