Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century

by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Overview

" . . . stimulating and important anthology . . ." —Holocaust and Genocide Studies

" . . . a useful and competent volume that can serve as a good introduction to scholarship on the aftermath of the Holocaust." —Times Literary Supplement

More than 50 years after the end of World War II, how do we look back upon and understand the nature and consequences of that catastrophic event? What kind of historical consciousness has developed over the past half century with respect to the Nazi destruction of European Jewry? These questions are explored by a distinguished international group of scholars who draw on history, literature, memory, memorials, and the representation of the Holocaust in the culture to assess the impact of the Holocaust on postwar consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253211378
Publisher:	Indiana University Press (Ips)
Publication date:	11/22/1997
Series:	Jewish Literature and Culture
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alvin H. Rosenfeld is Professor of English and Director of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. His books include Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature, and Imagining Hitler.

Editorial Reviews

From the still-unsettling perspective of half a century, 13 contributors evaluate Holocaust fallout from four vantage points: through historical writings, literature, and cinema; in relation to the Zionist movement and the state of Israel; and its impact on American Jewish life, and on European Jewry in the postwar period. The incisive articles result from meetings at Indiana University in 1995. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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