Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work

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Featuring 300 alphabetically organized bio-critical essays on writers of memoirs, novels, poetry, and drama, ranging in length from 1,500 to 7,000 words, this comprehensive scholarly work presents a broad spectrum of voices remembering, interpreting, and reinterpreting one of the twentieth century's most politically and emotionally charged events. Including writers whose works first appeared in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish, this ...
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Featuring 300 alphabetically organized bio-critical essays on writers of memoirs, novels, poetry, and drama, ranging in length from 1,500 to 7,000 words, this comprehensive scholarly work presents a broad spectrum of voices remembering, interpreting, and reinterpreting one of the twentieth century's most politically and emotionally charged events. Including writers whose works first appeared in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish, this reference provides wide international coverage, though its focus will be on writers whose work is available in English. It will prove a valuable resource to students, scholars, general readers, or to anyone interested in world history.

Entries organized by writer include:

Agosin, Marjorie * Appelfeld, Aharon * Baker, Mark * Bassani, Giorgio * Bellow, Saul * Bukiet, Melvin * Camus, Albert * Cohen, Leonard * Epstein, Leslie * Ficowski, Jerzy * Gay, Peter * Goldstein, Rebecca * Grynberg, Henryk * Harris, Robert * Kaplan, Chaim * Karski, Jan * Levinas, Emmanuel * Meed, Vladka * Oberski, Jona * Ozick, Cynthia * Peleg, Dorit * Rabinovitch, Ann * Raphael, Lev * Sachs, Nelly * Sartre, Jean-Paul * Shapiro, Alan * Steiner, George * Tec, Nechama * Weil, Grete * Weiss, Peter * Wygodzki, Stanislaw * Zukofsky, Louis * and many more.

"This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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This satisfyingly useful and remarkably comprehensive reference source is sure to support research by academics, students ranging from high school through graduate school, and interested general readers. The bulk of this hefty two-volume set consists of 312 biographical and critical essays on Holocaust authors. Editor Kremer (English, Kansas State Univ.), a recognized expert on Holocaust literature and 20th-century Jewish American writers, has broadened the Holocaust canon by including and bringing fresh insight to bear on well-known writers such as Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Chabon, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and others while introducing us to less familiar authors from a wide variety of languages and national literatures, including second- and third-generation writers. Each substantial, signed essay, ranging from 2000 to 8000 words, comments on the Holocaust background or interest of the author and discusses his or her major works, themes, styles, cultural contexts, contribution, and critical reception. Each entry is followed by a complete list of the author's primary works and a selective bibliography of the criticism. Rounding out the encyclopedia are a glossary, maps, and appendixes cross-listing authors and works by ghettoes, camps, historic figures, key events, literary themes, genres, languages, and author birth places. Oryx's Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature, which covers the same ground, is a fine reference but addresses fewer than half of the authors found here, with shorter articles and less apparatus. Highly recommended.-Paul D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., ME Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780415929837
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication date: 10/28/2002
  • Pages: 1499

Meet the Author

S. Lillian Kremer, University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University, has written numerous articles on Holocaust literature. She is the author of two well-received books: Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, and Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish-American Holocaust Literature.

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