Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, has succeeded in identifying the most important works on the Holocaust , by both first- and second-generation survivors as well as philosophers, novelists, and poets reflecting on the Holocaust today. Core works of nonfiction--histories, biographies, memoirs, diaries, survivor testimonies, reflection, religion, philosophy, ethics--form two-thirds the list, joined by literary fiction, poetry, and drama.
The resulting set of essays introduces readers to the literature of one of the defining events of our time, essential reading for all serious students of history, literature, social psychology, ethics, and philosophy. Each essay begins with the title and subtitle if any; the work's author including years of birth and death ; the year in which the work was first published for non-English works, the original title and its year of publication are followed by the work's English title in translation and the translation year ; the work's genre drama, novel, novella, nonfiction, poetry, or short fiction ; for nonfiction works, the subgenre such as history, biography, memoir, diary, survivor testimony, reflection, religion, philosophy, ethics ; a list of principal personages nonfiction works or principal characters fiction works ; an overview of the work's contents; and a list of sources for further study about the work, the author, or the subject of the work.
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Defining Documents in American History series, produced by Salem Press, consists of a collection of essays on important historical documents by a diverse range of writers on a broad range of subjects in American History. Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. Tweets by SalemPress.
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Holocaust TestimoniesLawrence L. House of DollsKa-tzetnik In Kindling FlameLinda Atkinson. In the Blue DistanceNelly Sachs. Incident at VichyArthur Miller. An Interrupted LifeEtty Hillesum. Into That DarknessGitta Sereny. Volume 2 Life with a StarJir Weil.
The Master PlanHeather Pringle. Masters of DeathRichard Rhodes. MausArt Spiegelman. Nazi Germany and the JewsSaul Friedlnder. Nazi TerrorEric A. Never to ForgetMilton Meltzer. NightElie Wiesel. NightfatherCarl Friedman. Number the StarsLois Lowry. O the ChimneysNelly Sachs.
On the Natural History of DestructionW. Open Closed OpenYehuda Amichai. Ordinary MenChristopher R. The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt. Our GoldaDavid A. Paul CelanJohn Felstiner. The PawnbrokerEdward Lewis Wallant. The Periodic TablePrimo Levi. Perpetrators, Victims, BystandersRaul Hilberg. The PianistWladyslaw Szpilman.
Playing for TimeFania Fnelon. The Portage to San Cristbal of A. George Steiner. Preaching EugenicsChristine Rosen. A Problem from HellSamantha Power. Rethinking the HolocaustYehuda Bauer. ReunionFred Uhlman. The ShawlCynthia Ozick. ShoahClaude Lanzmann. Sophies ChoiceWilliam Styron. The State of Israel vs. Adolf EichmannHanna Yablonka. Still AliveRuth Klger. The SunflowerSimon Wiesenthal. Survival in AuschwitzPrimo Levi.
The Terezn RequiemJosef Bor. The Texture of MemoryJames E. Times ArrowMartin Amis. Touch WoodRene Roth-Hano. TziliAharon Appelfeld. The Upstairs RoomJohanna Reiss. War Against the WeakEdwin Black. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? Arno J. The Wilkomirski AffairStefan Maechler. A World at ArmsGerhard L.
More Holocaust Literature. The Accident Author: Elie Wiesel First published: Le Jour, English translation, Genre: Novella Subgenre: Psychological realism Wiesel draws on his own experience as a Holocaust survivor in telling the story of Eliezer, a young man who, some years after World War II, struggles to live with ever-present memories of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. For Eliezer, the tragedies of the past make impossible any hopes for the present or the future.
Principal characters: Eliezer, the narrator, a journalist Kathleen, Eliezers sweetheart Eliezers grandmother, a victim of the Holocaust but still present in Eliezers memory Dr. Paul Russel, the young resident who cares for Eliezer in the hospital Sarah, a prostitute who as a twelve-year-old girl was sexually abused by the Nazis Gyula, a painter of Hungarian origin Overview The Accident, a novella of little more than one hundred pages, is a psychological, philosophical, and spiritual journey. The narrator of the story, Eliezer, is a young journalist who has been spiritually immobilized by the Holocaust, in which he lost his family and of which he is a survivor.
The narrative opens as Eliezer and Kathleen, his sweetheart, who loves him profoundly but to whom he is unable to make a commitment, are going to see the film version of The Brothers Karamazov in New York City. Hot, tired, bored, and lifeless, Eliezer lags behind Kathleen in crossing a street and is struck and dragged several yards by a taxicab. Suffering severe injuries, he is taken to a hospital, where, after three days, he undergoes surgery.
The young doctor who attends him, Paul Russel, takes a special interest in him, showing a curiosity that makes Eliezer suspect that the doctor knows some-. The reader discovers that Eliezer was subconsciously a willing victim of his nearly fatal accident. Russels mention of Kathleen causes Eliezer to recall meeting her for the first time in Paris, some five or six years earlier. At that time, as now, he had come to the end of his hope and strength because of the oppressive memories of his experiences during the Holocaust.