This important anthology sheds much light on the aesthetic and moral role of writers in representing the Shoah. By including both survivors and non-witnessing authors in their study, the Raphaels emphasize the universal and ongoing nature of this crucial issue. (Alan L. Berger, author, Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witness to the Holocaust.)

The Raphaels have gathered for us—teachers, students, readers—a collection of short stories built on silence: from the unspeakable events of the Holocaust through the profound silence of history to the decorous silence of racism and probity. "The story [of the Holocaust] is never-ending," says the introduction. Without this book we'd know less than we must know to stay alive.
(Hilda Raz, editor, The Prairie Schoner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing.