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  • The Holocaust across Borders

    Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    “Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, ... Read more

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  • Communist Poland

    A Jewish Woman's Experience

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman’s Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored ... Read more

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  • Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

    Essays and Selected Poems

    Series series Immigrant Worlds & Texts
    This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II. The chapters in this volume explore in depth the influence of both modernist poetics and American Jewish identity on Plutzik’s richly figured poetry. ... Read more

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  • New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures

    Reading and Teaching

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
    Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward ... Read more

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