| Description |
ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Elie Wiesel -- Ch. 1. Introduction. The Second-Generation Witness: Inheriting the Holocaust. Particularism and Universalism. Children of Survivors and Children of Job. Theological Sequelae. Universal Questions. The Search for Tikkun -- Ch. 2. From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness. The American Second Generation: A Brief History. A New Generation of Jewish Writers and Filmmakers. Post-Auschwitz Covenant Theology. Elie Wiesel and the Additional Covenant. Irving Greenberg and the Voluntary Covenant. Emil L. Fackenheim and the Search for a Post-Aushwitz Tikkun Olam. Richard L. Rubenstein: "God after the Death of God" -- Ch. 3. Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism. Damaged Goods. Summer Long-a-Coming. Maus. Short Stories: A Biographical Note. Stories of an Imaginary Childhood and While the Messiah Tarries. Dancing at the Club Holocaust and Forms of Captivity and Escape. Elijah Visible |
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Ch. 4. Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism. The Flood. White Lies. Dancing on Tisha B'Av and Winter Eyes -- Ch. 5. Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism. Kaddish. A Generation Apart. Breaking the Silence. Half-Sister, Everything's For You, and In Memory. Angst. The Docudramas: The Dr. John Haney Sessions and Open Secrets -- Ch. 6. Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism. As If It Were Yesterday. Weapons of The Spirit. So Many Miracles. Voices From The Attic -- Ch. 7. Whither The Future? Working through the Holocaust. Riders towards the Dawn. Children of Job and Covenantal Judaism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
96026918 |
| ISBN |
0791433579 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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0791433587 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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