| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: "if this is a man" -- Part I. Reading holocaust diaries -- Holocaust diaries: between life story and trauma -- Reading the diaries as a critique of holocaust historiography -- The dynamic of the text between the two deaths: a theoretical model for the reading of traumatic texts -- Part II. From autobiographical time to documentation time: Victor Klemperer's diary -- The life story of Victor Klemperer -- The disruption of life-story time in the Klemperer diaries -- From autobiographical to documentary diary -- Part III. The Jewish self under Nazi domination: Chaim Kaplan's Warsaw diary -- Chaim Kaplan and his diary -- The Jews and Nazi "law" -- Between perpetrators and victims: the gray zone of consciousness in the diary of Chaim Kaplan -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi persecution. Throughout Europe, in towns, villages, ghettos, forests, hideouts, concentration and labor camps, and even in extermination camps, Jews of all ages and of all cultural backgrounds described in writing what befell them. Goldberg claims that diary and memoir writing was perhaps the most important literary g |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
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Jews -- Diaries -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Historiography
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Jews
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Diaries
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017025462 |
| ISBN |
9780253030214 |
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0253030218 |
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0253029740 |
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9780253029744 |
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