Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction
Explores how Jewish American writers have grappled with the enormity of the Holocaust.
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Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction
Explores how Jewish American writers have grappled with the enormity of the Holocaust.
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Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

by Alan L. Berger
Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

by Alan L. Berger

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Overview

Explores how Jewish American writers have grappled with the enormity of the Holocaust.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791496442
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 696 KB

About the Author

Alan L. Berger teaches in the Department of Religion and directs the interdisciplinary Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University. His essays on Holocaust fiction and pedagogy, Jewish mysticism, and the sociology of Judaism appear in a variety of places. He has also written study guides for Alinsky's Children, a film project dealing with children of Holocaust survivors.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Jewish Existence

Covenant Transformations

Covenant and Modernity

The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis

Literary Response to Covenant Crisis

American Judaism and the Holocaust

Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists

2. Holocaust as Watershed

Holocaust Problematics

Theological Responses

Theology and Literature

Is the Holocaust Beyond Artistic Expression?

Who Should Write of the Holocaust?

Trivializing the Holocaust

American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique

The Role of the American Jewish Novelist

3. Holocaust Responses I: Judaism as a Religious Value System

The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry

Hasidic Tales

Considering the Evidence

Arthur A. Cohen

Cynthia Ozick

Hugh Nissenson

Elie Wiesel

Isaac B. Singer

Conclusion

4. Holocaust Responses II: Judaism as a Secular Value System

Considering the Evidence

Bernard Malamud

Saul Bellow

Susan F. Schaeffer

Cynthia Ozick

Pre-Holocaust America: Jewish Existence and Covenant Diminishment

Hugh Nissenson

Robert Kotlowitz

Conclusion

5. Holocaust Responses III: Symbolic Judaism

Considering the Evidence

Philip Roth

Richard Elman

Edward Lewis Wallant

Norma Rosen

Bernard Malamud

Conclusion

6. Holocaust and Covenant

The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism

Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu

Problems and Possibilities

Notes

Index

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