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Jews --- Memory --- Civilization --- Persecutions --- Religious aspects --- Judaism --- Jews - Civilization --- Jews - Persecutions --- Memory - Religious aspects - Judaism

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A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.

Jews --- Yiddishists --- Jewish scholars --- Mothers and sons. --- Roskies, David G., --- Roskies, Masha, --- Montréal (Québec) --- Ethnic relations.

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What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, tales of individual survival in hiding? Is it the same everywhere: in the West as in the East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in prose? Is this literature sacred and sui generis, or can it be studied in the light of other literatures? What of the perpetrators and bystanders, the hidden children, the children of Holocaust survivors: Do they speak with the same authority? What works of Holocaust literature will be read a hundred years from now--and why? Here, for the first time and told from beginning to end, is an historical survey of Holocaust literature in all genres, countries, and major languages. Beginning in wartime, it proceeds from the literature of mobilization and mourning in the Free World to the vast and varied literature produced in the Nazi-occupied ghettos, the bunkers and places of hiding, the transit and concentrations camps. Within weeks of the liberation, in displaced persons camps, a new memorial and testamentary literature begins to take shape. Moving from Europe to Israel, the U.S., and beyond, the authors situate the writings by real and proxy witnesses within three distinct postwar periods: a period of "communal memory," still internal and internecine; a period of "provisional memory" in the '60s and '70s that witnesses the birth of a self-conscious Holocaust genre; to the period of "authorized memory" in which we live today, following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1989-91), and the opening of the US Holocaust Museum (1993). Twenty book covers - first editions in their original languages - and an eminently readable guide to the "first hundred books" together show the multilingual scope, historical depth, the moral and artistic range of this extraordinary body of writing.

Holocaust survivors -- Biography -- History and criticism. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- History and criticism. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust survivors --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Survivors, Holocaust --- Victims --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Influence --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Shoah --- Survivants de la Shoah --- Mémoire collective. --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique. --- Influence. --- Biographies --- History and criticism. --- Mémoire collective. --- Dans la littérature

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Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, this anthology comprises reportage, diaries, prose, poems, jokes, and sermons that capture the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices-young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists-and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as "a civilization responding to its own destruction," these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Jews in real time, against time, and for all time.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Jews --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews --- History --- Personal narratives --- Warsaw (Poland) --- History

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