Breaking crystal : writing and memory after Auschwitz / edited by Efraim Sicher.

Contributor Sicher, Efraim.

Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.

Description378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:The burden of memory : the writing of the post-Holocaust generation / Efraim Sicher -- Transgenerational after-effects of the Holocaust in Israel : three generations / Dan Bar-On -- The formation of Holocaust consciousness in the state of Israel : the early days / Hanna Yablonka -- Personal fears and national nightmares : the Holocaust complex in Israeli cinema / Ilan Avisar -- Inherited fear : second-generation poets and novelists in Israel / Hanna Yaoz -- Holocaust trauma in the second-generation : the Hebrew fiction of David Grossman and Savyon Liebrecht / Leon I. Yudkin -- Transmission of memory : the post-Holocaust generation in the Diaspora / Ellen S. Fine -- Mediums of memory : artistic responses of the second generation / Stephen C. Feinstein -- Bearing witness : theological implications of second-generation literature in America / Alan L. Berger -- Auto/biography and fiction after Auschwitz : probing the boundaries of second-generation aesthetics / Sara R. Horowitz -- The Holocaust in the postmodernist era / Efraim Sicher -- Acknowledging the Holocaust in contemporary American fiction and criticism / Emily Miller Budick -- Afterword : the Shoah between memory and history / Saul Friedländer.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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