03058nam 2200469 450 991046753750332120200520144314.01-64469-005-510.1515/9781644690055(CKB)4100000007926596(MiAaPQ)EBC5747751(DE-B1597)541109(OCoLC)1081373490(DE-B1597)9781644690055(Au-PeEL)EBL5747751(EXLCZ)99410000000792659620190610d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFragments of hell Israeli Holocaust literature /Dvir AbramovichBrighton, Massachusetts :Academic Press,2019.1 online resource (144 pages)1-64469-004-7 Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. Foreboding and Wishful Thinking in a Town with a Difference --Chapter 2. Our Mother Eve on a Death Train --Chapter 3. The Prophet of Wrath and Lamentation --Chapter 4. The Shoah as an Asylum --Chapter 5. And He Survived "Planet Auschwitz" --Chapter 6. A Funny and Sensitive Story about Holocaust Memory in Israel --Bibliography --IndexIn this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah, and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful analysis of the author's individual opus, accompanied by a comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy that befell their people.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureIsraeli literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.Israeli literatureHistory and criticism.892.409358405318Abramovich Dvir849840MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467537503321Fragments of hell2467550UNINA