Making and unmaking literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos
| Titel: | Making and unmaking literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos / Sven-Erik Rose |
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| Veröffentlicht: |
Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2025] Waltham, Massachusetts : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [2025] |
| Umfang: | xiii, 420 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry |
| Andere Ausgaben: |
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
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| ISBN: | 9781684582754 |
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| Bemerkung: | Introduction -- I. Novel -- 1. Novelistic time, historical time, and the end of omniscience : Zelman Skalov -- II. Poetry. Three poems from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942 -- 2. Shmuel Marvil's torn words -- 3. The Jewish dead confront their German murderers : Itzhak Katzenelson -- 4. Yoysef Kirman's poetics of duration -- III. Short prose: one. Self writing in the Warsaw Ghetto -- 5. Writing the hungering self in a modernist key : Leyb Goldin -- 6. The autobiography of a number : Yehoshue Perle -- IV. Short prose: two. Revisiting popular literary genres in the Lodz and Vilna Ghettos -- 7. Sherlock Holmes in the Warsaw and Vilna Ghettos : Gustawa Jarecka and Herman Kruk -- 8. Oskar Rosenfeld's haunting literary dream in the Lodz Ghetto -- 9. Ghetto gothic : Shaye Shpigl's umheymlekhe tales from the Lodz Ghetto -- Epilogue |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
"This book is a study of literary texts written by Jewish authors while interned in Nazi ghettos. Poetry and other literary genres were centrally concerned with the question of what it meant to narrate the catastrophic realities of ghetto life into received literary forms. |
