Holocaust literature / edited by John K. Roth.

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  • Author(s): Roth, John K.
  • Language:
    English
  • Publication Information:
    Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2008.
  • Publication Date:
    2008
  • Physical Description:
    2 v. (xlii, 617 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Series:
    Magill's choice
  • Publication Type:
    Book
  • Document Type:
    Bibliographies; Non-fiction
  • Subject Terms:
  • Availability: 2 Holdings
  • Additional Information
    • Abstract:
      Summary: Identifies the most important works on the Holocaust by both first- and second-generation survivors as well as philosophers, novelists, poets, and playwrights reflecting on the Holocaust today. Essays are arranged alphabetically by title and cover the essential literature of the subject.
    • Content Notes:
      1. The accident / Elie Wiesel ; After Auschwitz / Richard L. Rubenstein ; Albert Speer / Gitta Sereny ; All rivers run to the sea ; And the sea is never full / Wiesel ; "The angel of history" / Carolyn Forché ; Anya / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer ; At the mind's limits / Jean Améry ; Auschwitz and after / Charlotte Delbo ; Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald ; "Babii Yar" / Yevgeny Yevtushenko ; Badenheim 1939 / Aharon Appelfeld ; Constantine's sword / James Carroll -- "Daddy" / Sylvia Plath ; Daniel's story / Carol Matas ; "Death fugue" / Paul Celan ; The deputy / Rolf Hochhuth ; Destruction of the European Jews / Raul Hilberg ; Diary of a young girl / Anne Frank ; The double bond / Carole Angier ; Drowned and the saved / Primo Levi ; Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt ; "Elegy for N.N." / Czesław Miłosz ; Enemies / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Europe Central / William T. Vollmann ; Explaining Hitler / Ron Rosenbaum ; Fall of France / Julian Jackson ; Fateless / Imre Kertész ; Fifth son / Wiesel ; Friedrich / Hans Peter Richter ; Gates of the forest / Wiesel ; Ghetto / Joshua Sobol ; God's presence in history / Emil L. Fackenheim ; Gone to soldiers / Marge Piercy ; Hiding place / Corrie ten Boom, John & Elizabeth Sherrill ; History of love / Nicole Krauss ; History on trial / Deborah E. Lipstadt ; Hitler / Ian Kershaw ; Hitler of history / John Lukacs ; Hitler's willing executioners / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ; Holocaust in American life / Peter Novick ; Holocaust politics / John K. Roth ; Holocaust testimonies / Lawrence L. Langer ; House of dolls / Ka-tzetnik 135633 ; I will bear witness / Victor Klemperer ; In kindling flame / Linda Atkinson ; "In the blue distance" / Nelly Sachs ; Incident at Vichy / Arthur Miller ; Interrupted life / Etty Hillesum ; Into that darkness / Gitta Sereny ; Jews / Arthur Hertzberg, Aron Hirt-Manheimer ; The journey back / Johanna Reiss ; "Journey through the night" / Jakov Lind ; Last of the just / André Schwarz-Bart ; Lest innocent blood be shed / Philip P. Hallie ; Letters & papers from prison / Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
    • Content Notes:
      2. Life with a star / Jirí Weil ; Man's search for meaning / Viktor Emil Frankl ; Master plan / Heather Pringle ; Masters of death / Richard Rhodes ; Maus / Art Spiegelman ; The Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton ; Nazi Germany & the Jews / Saul Friedländer ; Nazi terror / Eric A. Johnson ; Never to forget / Milton Meltzer ; Night / Wiesel ; Nightfather / Carl Friedman ; Number the stars / Lois Lowry ; O the chimneys / Nelly Sachs ; On the natural history of destruction / W.G. Sebald ; Open closed open / Yehuda Amichai ; Ordinary men / Christopher R. Browning ; Origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; Our Golda / David A. Adler ; Paul Celan / John Felstiner ; The pawnbroker / Edward Lewis Wallant ; The periodic table / Primo Levi ; Perpetrators, victims, bystanders / Raul Hilberg ; The pianist / Władysław Szpilman ; Playing for time / Fania Fénelon ; The portage to San Cristóbal of A.H. / George Steiner ; Preaching eugenics / Christine Rosen ; "A problem from hell" / Samantha Power ; Rethinking the Holocaust / Yehuda Bauer ; Return to Auschwitz / Kitty Hart ; Reunion / Fred Uhlman ; Rise and fall of Adolf Hitler / William L. Shirer ; Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally ; A scrap of time, and other stories / Ida Fink ; The Second World War / Martin Gilbert ; The shawl / Cynthia Ozick ; Shoah / Claude Lanzmann ; Sophie's choice / William Styron ; The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann / Hanna Yablonka ; Still alive / Ruth Klüger ; The sunflower / Simon Wiesenthal ; Survival in Auschwitz / Primo Levi ; The Terezín requiem / Josef Bor ; The texture of memory / James E. Young ; "This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen" / Tadeusz Borowski ; Time's arrow / Martin Amis ; Touch wood / Renée Roth-Hano ; Tzili / Aharon Appelfeld ; The upstairs room / Johanna Reiss ; The wall / John Hersey ; War against the weak / Edwin Black ; Why did the heavens not darken? / Arno J. Mayer ; The Wilkomirski affair / Stefan Maechler ; A world at arms / Gerhard L. Weinberg.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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    • ISBN:
      9781587653759 (set : alk. paper)
      1587653753 (set : alk. paper)
      9781587653766 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
      1587653761 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
      9781587653773 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
      158765377X (v. 2 : alk. paper)
    • Accession Number:
      2007051349
    • Accession Number:
      185021527
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.457367