Literary Criticism
Aaron, Frieda W.Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps.Foreword by David G. Roskies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Aberbach, David. Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Adorno, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics. Translated by E.B. Ashton. New York: Seabury Press, 1973.
Ahokas, Pirjo, and Martine Chard-Hutchinson, eds. Reclaiming Memory: American Representations of the Holocaust.Turku, Finland: University of Turku, School of Art Studies, 1997.
Alexander, Edward. The Holocaust and the War of Ideas.New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
——. The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979.
Alphen, Ernst van. Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory.Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Alter, Robert.After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing.New York: Dutton, 1969.
——. Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis.Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977.
Alter, Robert, ed.Modern Hebrew Literature. New York: Behrman House, 1975.
Banner, Gillian. Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offense. London and Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust.Ithaca, New York:Cornell University Press, 1989.
Berger, Alan L., ed. Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, 1939-1989.Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
Berger, Alan L. Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust.Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
——. Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction.Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
Berger, James. After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Bilik, Dorothy Seidman. Immigrant-Survivors: Post-Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction.Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.
Blanchot, Maurice. The Writing of the Disaster . Translated by AnnSmock. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Bosmajian, Hamida. Metaphors of Evil: Contemporary German Literature and the Shadow of Nazism.Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1979.
——. Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Braham, Randolph L., ed.Reflections of the Holocaust in Art and Literature.Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Monographs; New York: Csengeri Institute for Holocaust Studies, City University of New York; distributed by Columbia University Press, 1990.
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum.University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Cernyak-Spatz, Susan E. German Holocaust Literature.New York: Peter Lang, 1985.
Cole, Tim. Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler: How History Is Bought, Packaged, and Sold.New York: Routledge, 1999.
Colombat, André Pierre. The Holocaust in French Film.Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps.New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Doneson, Judith E. The Holocaust in American Film.Philadelphia:Jewish Publication Society, 1987.
Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven. Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
——. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature.Foreword by Alfred Kazin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Felman, Shoshana, and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History.New York: Routledge, 1991.
Fisch, Harold. A Remembered Future: A Study in Literary Mythology.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Fischel, Jack, and Sanford Pinsker, eds. Literature, the Arts, and the Holocaust.Greenwood, Florida: Penkevill Publishing Company, 1987.
Fishman, Charles M., ed.Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust.Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1991.
Flanzbaum, Hilene, ed. The Americanization of the Holocaust.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Fox, Thomas C. Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust.Rochester, New York: Camden House, 1999.
Fridman, Lea Wernick. Words and Witness: Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies in the Representation of the Holocaust.Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Fried, Lewis, ed.Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources.New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Friedlander, Albert H. Riders towards the Dawn: From Holocaust to Hope.New York: Continuum, 1994.
——. A Thread of Gold: Journeys towards Reconciliation.Translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press; Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.
Friedländer, Saul, ed.Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution."Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Gilman, Sander L., and Karen Remmler, eds. Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature since 1989.New York: New York University Press, 1994.
Gilman, Sander L., and Jack Zipes, eds. Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Goodenough, Elizabeth, Mark A. Heberle, and Naomi B. Sokoloff, eds. Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature. Fore-word by Robert Coles. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
Gurewitsch, Brana, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Haft, Cynthia J.The Theme of Nazi Concentration Camps in French Literature.The Hague: Mouton, 1973.
Halio, Jay L., and Ben Siegel, eds. Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
Halperin, Irving.Messengers from the Dead: Literature of the Holocaust.Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970.
Hamburger, Michael. From Prophecy to Exorcism: The Premisses of Modern German Literature. London: Longmans, 1965.
Hartman, Geoffrey H., ed. Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Oxford, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994.
Hartman, Geoffrey H.The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Heinemann, Marlene E. Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Hirsch, David H. The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism after Auschwitz.Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press; Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991.
Hoffman, Frederick John. The Mortal No: Death and the Modern Imagination.Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Hook, Elizabeth Snyder.Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel: Literary Explorations in the Aftermath of the Third Reich. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2001.
Horowitz, Sara R. Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Howe, Irving.World of Our Fathers.New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Howe, Irving, and Eliezer Greenberg, eds. Voices from the Yiddish: Essays, Memoirs, Diaries.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972.
Huyssen, Andreas.Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia.New York: Routledge, 1995.
Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. New York: Random House, 1983.
Isser, Edward R. Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representations of the Holocaust.Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1997.
Jaanus, Maire.Literature and Negation.New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Kahn, Lothar.Mirrors of the Jewish Mind: A Gallery of Portraits of European Jewish Writers of Our Time.New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1968.
Knopp, Josephine Zadovsky. The Trial of Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Writing.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.
Kohn, Murray J. The Voice of My Blood Cries Out: The Holocaust As Reflected in Hebrew Poetry.New York: Shengold Publishers, 1979.
Korman, Gerd, ed. Hunter and Hunted: Human History of the Holocaust.New York: Viking Press, 1973.
Kremer, S. Lillian. Witness through the Imagination: Ozick, Elman, Cohen, Potok, Singer, Epstein, Bellow, Steiner, Wallant, Malamud: Jewish-American Holocaust Literature.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
——. Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Kritzman, Lawrence D., ed. Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "The Jewish Question" in France.New York: Routledge, 1995.
LaCapra, Dominick. History and Memory after Auschwitz.Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998.
——. Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma.Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994.
——. Writing History, Writing Trauma.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Lang, Berel. The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory.Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999.
——. Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Lang, Berel, ed. Writing and the Holocaust.New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988.
Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays.New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
——. The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature.Boston: Beacon Press, 1978.
——. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination.New Haven:Yale University Press, 1975.
——. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
——. Preempting the Holocaust.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
——. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit.Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.
Lazar, Moshe, ed. The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Daymares in Literature and Film. Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1983.
Leak, Andrew N., and George Paizis, eds.The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable.New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Leftwich, Joseph, ed. and trans.The Way We Think: A Collection of Essays from the Yiddish.2 vols. South Brunswick, New Jersey: Thomas Yoseloff, 1969.
Levin, Meyer. In Search: An Autobiography . New York: Horizon Press, 1950.
Lewis, Stephen. Art out of Agony: The Holocaust Theme in Literature, Sculpture and Film.Montreal and New York: CBC Enterprises/les Enterprises Radio-Canada, 1984.
Memmi, Albert. The Liberation of the Jew.Translated by Judy Hyun. New York: Orion Press, 1966.
Meyer, Michael J., ed. Literature and Ethnic Discrimination.Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997.
Milchman, Alan, and Alan Rosenberg, eds. Postmodernism and the Holocaust.Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1998.
MiÅ,osz, CzesÅ,aw. The History of Polish Literature. New York: MacMillan, 1969
Mintz, Alan, ed. The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction.Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, 1997.
Mintz, Alan.Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
——. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Niewyk, Donald L., ed. Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Nochlin, Linda, and Tamar Garb, eds.The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore J. Weitzman, eds.Women in the Holocaust.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Ozick, Cynthia. Metaphor and Memory: Essays.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Patraka, Vivian M. Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Patterson, David. Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
——. The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
——. Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir.Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Patterson, David, and Alan L. Berger, eds.Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature.Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Peitsch, Helmut, Charles Burdett, and Claire Gorrara, eds. European Memories of the Second World War.New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.
Reiter, Andrea.Narrating the Holocaust.Translated by Patrick Camiller. London: Continuum, in association with the European Jewish Publication Society, 2000.
Ricœur, Paul.The Symbolism of Evil. Translated by Emerson Buchanan. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
Rosen, Norma. Accidents of Influence: Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Rosenberg, Alan, James R. Watson, and Detlef Linke, eds. Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges.Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2000.
Rosenberg, David, ed. Testimony: Contemporary Writers Make the Holocaust Personal. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Rosenfeld, Alvin H. A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
——. Imagining Hitler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Roskies, David G. Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Roskies, David G., ed.The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe.Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1988.
Roth, John K., and Elisabeth Maxwell, eds. Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide.3 vols. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Rovit, Rebecca, and Alvin Goldfarb, eds. Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Rubenstein, Richard L., and John K. Roth. Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987.
Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany.Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Sartre, Jean-Paul.What Is Literature?Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949.
Schiff, Ellen. From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama.Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.
Schlant, Ernestine. The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust.New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1997.
Schulman, Elias. The Holocaust in Yiddish Literature. New York: Education Department of the Workmen's Circle, 1983.
Schumacher, Claude, ed. Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Schwarz, Daniel R. Imagining the Holocaust.New York: St. Martin'sPress, 1999.
Sicher, Efraim. Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
Sicher, Efraim, ed. Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Skloot, Robert. The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
Skloot, Robert, ed. The Theatre of the Holocaust.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
Sliwowska, Wiktoria, ed.The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak.Translated by Fay and Julian Bussgang. Postscript by Jerzy Ficowski. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1998.
Sokoloff, Naomi B.Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Sokoloff, Naomi B., Anne Lapidus Lerner, and Anita Norich, eds. Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature.New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Cambridge, Massachusetts: distributed by Harvard University Press, 1992.
Steiner, George. Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution.New York: Atheneum, 1971.
——. In Bluebeards Castle: Some Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
——. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman.New York: Atheneum, 1967.
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Wiesel, Elie.A Jew Today.Translated by Marion Wiesel. New York:Random House, 1978.
——. Legends of Our Time.Translated by Steven Donadio. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
——. One Generation After.Translated by Lily Edelman and the author. New York: Random House, 1970.
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——. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
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