Jewish Fiction category: 695 books

In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events...

* strong interest in the gay and Lesbian market. * Lisa Kron is also a leading member of theatrical troupe The Five Lesbian Brothers. * This is her first publication as a single artist

Clarifies many aspects of the previously obscured or merely anecdotal relation between criticism and Jewishness in the twentieth century and beyond.

Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards...

In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before...

On the eve of World War II, Krystyna Wituska, a carefree teenager attending finishing school in Switzerland, returned to Poland. During the occupation, when she was twenty years old, she drifted into the Polish Underground. By her own admission, she was attracted first by the adventure, but her youthful...

Siamo alla fine del 1990. Il muro di Berlino è appena crollato; la gente dell'Europa dell'Est vive con grandi aspettative il cambiamento, mentre nel resto d'Europa il benessere degli anni ottanta sembra sbriciolarsi. Enrico Fontana, romano e benestante, è figlio di un gerarca fascista, ucciso dai...

CAIN’S COURAGE Andrew McCoy Stop the terrorists — dead! When three busloads of kibbutz children are blown up, one evil man is behind the outrage: diehard Nazi fanatic Max Spitz, alive and well, fabulously rich, and living in South America. Part-time kibbutznik Mark Bern resolves...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. “It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining feature...

Am 22. März 1943 dringen „Judenjäger“ in das Amsterdamer Haus von Klaartje de Zwarte-Walvisch ein. Während sie auf ihren Mann warten, vertreibt sich einer von ihnen mit Klavierspiel die Zeit. Die Hölle beginnt langsam. Die Registrierung erweist sich als Internierung, und der neue Wohnort ist...

In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For...

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,...