There was once a stigma against graphic novels, with critics dismissing them as little more than glorified comic books. But these works can cover serious, intelligent topics. When cartoonist Art Spiegelman received a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 forMaus, his graphic memoir about the Holocaust, he brough...
Elliot Perlman on memoirs bearing witness to the Holocaust.The article presents short reviews of several books including "The Last Jew of Treblinka" by Chil Rajchman, "The Drowned and the Saved" by Primo Levi, and "The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow" edited by Raul Hilberg.Perlman...
I have heard historians say that we should not look to the survivors for a sense of what the Holocaust was about precisely because they were there, trapped in the midst of the whirlwind. Survivors' accounts are "tainted," it is argued, by their personal perspectives. Goldberg's Digest ...
” to carry on the mourning and to dedicate his or her life to the memory of the Shoah. That child takes part in the parents’ emotional world, assumes the burden, and becomes the link between past and future. I realize now that my mother chose me to be that ...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust—40 Years Later: Reflections and Commentary Kestenberg J. JUDITH,KESTENBERG - 《Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry》 被引量: 16发表: 1985年 HolocaustTestimonies:TheRuinsofMemory(review) In the last ten years, as the passing of time continues to ...
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With Mother's Day right around the corner, the folks over at Goodreads did the leg-work of rounding up a list of 24 of the best memoirs about moms written by their sons and daughters. Based on 85 million-member lists of reviews and ratings, each…
This dissertation combines cultural theory and gender theory with literary criticism to evaluate the treatment of lesbians during the Holocaust and in narratives about the Holocaust. Responding to the kissing-scene controversy of the Berlin memorial for the homosexual victims of the Holocaust I claim th...
My good friend and colleague for two and a half years in Vilnius, Dónal Denham, has written a book with the titleNine Lives: The Reflections of a Dedicated Diplomat . The book is an interesting, fascinating read about an eventful career in the service of Ireland at home and abroad, enric...
In it, she recounted her five years’ work as director of a scheme organized by an association of British Jews organized to help locate and reunite family members who had survived the Holocaust. The scheme involved arranging for displaced Jewish children being kept in group homes in France to ...