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Contributors’ Notes

Victoria Aarons holds the position of O. R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. She is the author of over seventy scholarly articles and author or editor of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction and What Happened to Abraham: Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction, both recip- ients of the CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Book; The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction; Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute; Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction; The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow; Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory, co-authored with Alan L. Berger; New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Reading and Teaching; and The New Jewish-American Literary Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions. She is a contribu- tor to the two-volume Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature: Writers and Their Works, and she was an invited speaker at the 80th birthday celebration/sym- posium for Elie Wiesel. Aarons is one of three judges for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, an annual award given to a rising American Jewish writer of fction. Her work has appeared in a number of scholarly venues, and she is on the editorial board of several journals, including Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Women in Judaism. Her most recent monograph, Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2020. Wendy Adele-Marie is Professor of History and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at Oakton Community College, where she has developed and taught a number of courses including History of , History of , Introduction to Jewish Studies, and History of .

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She is the author of the book Women as Nazis, is editor of the series Annual Editions: History, Volume 1: Colonial Through Reconstruction, and Annual Editions: United States History, Volume II: Reconstruction Through Present, and has written twelve book reviews, twenty-one essays and articles, and two textbook modules. Her research focuses on the psycholog- ical/sociological aspects behind female perpetrators of the Holocaust, wom- en’s motivations during war, and pop-cultural imaging of women in the twentieth century. Alan Astro is a native of Brooklyn and has taught for 35 years at Trinity University, San Antonio. The author of over 35 articles on writers as varied as Bashevis, Baudelaire, Beckett, and Borges, he is the editor of Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Yiddish Writing from Latin America (published by University of New Mexico Press). His translation of Eric Marty’s Radical French Thought and the Return of the “Jewish Question” appeared in 2015 with Indiana University Press. Together with Malena Chinski of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Astro edited a multi-authored volume, Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America, which Brill published in 2018. Elizabeth R. Baer serves as Research Professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She is cur- rently working at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC, doing research for the Senior Historian Division. In 2016–2017, Dr. Baer held the position of Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey where she taught courses on gender and genocide. She has published fve books on the topics of war and genocide: Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Buck of Virginia (1997); The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women (2000), co-edited with Dr. Hester Baer, a critical edition of a memoir originally published in Germany in 1946; Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust (2003), co-edited, with Dr. Myrna Goldenberg, an anthology of essays on gender and the Holocaust; The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction (2012), which traces the intertextual appropriation of the golem legend in contemporary Jewish-American fction, graphic novels, comics, The X-Files, and flms; and her most recent book, The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (2017)., which has subsequently been published in an African edition. She is the recipient of several awards, includ- ing a Fulbright to study the history of in Germany and the Virginia Hamilton Prize for the best essay on multicultural children’s literature. Alan L. Berger occupies the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, the frst Holocaust chair established in the state of Florida, and is Professor of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz. He was series editor of “Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust,” Contributors’ Notes 807

Syracuse University Press (1998–2004). Among his books are Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, Judaism in the Modern World (Editor), and Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust (Foreword by Elie Wiesel), the frst systematic study of American flms and novels of children of analyzing the legacy of the Holocaust on the second generation. Second-Generation Voices: Refections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators, which he and his wife Naomi co-edited, won the 2002 B’nai Zion National Media Award. He is also co-editor of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature, which received a Booklist Best Reference Book of 2002 award and the Outstanding Reference Source 2003—Reference and User Services Association of the ALA (RUSA). The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz (2004) was nominated for the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize. He is also the author of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World (2004) and co-author with David Patterson of Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock of which he is co-author (2008). He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature (2009) and editor of Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Respond to 9/11 (2012) and Post-Holocaust Jewish/Christian Dialogue: After the Flood Before the Rainbow (2015). He is co-author (with Victoria Aarons) of Third-Generation Holocaust Representation, Trauma, History, and Memory (2017). Elie Wiesel Messenger for Peace is contracted with Routledge Press in their Historical Americans Series. His many articles, essays, and book chapters appear in a variety of places including Modern Judaism, Modern Language Studies, Religion and American Culture, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Saul Bellow Journal, Jewish Book Annual, Sociological Analysis, Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Judaism, Literature and Belief, Shofar, and Encyclopedia of Genocide. He was guest editor for two special issues of the journal Literature and Belief: “Holocaust Rescuers” and “Elie Wiesel.” He also served as guest editor for a special issue of the Saul Bellow Journal: “Bellow and the Holocaust” and for the Festschrift issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature honoring Dan Walden. Berger’s reviews have also appeared in leading Jewish periodicals including The Forward, Tikkun, Hadassah Magazine and Midstream. Rachel F. Brenner is Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published widely on responses to the Holocaust in Jewish Diaspora literature, Israeli literature, and Polish Literature and has held fellowships at the Hebrew University, the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Institute for Research in Humanities in the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty 808 Contributors’ Notes

Hillesum; Inextricably Bonded—Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture and The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (in Hebrew). Her latest book The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939–1945, was published by The Northwestern University Press in 2014. It received the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. David Caplan is the author of fve books of literary criticism and poetry, most recently, Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014) and an edited essay collection, On Rhyme (Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2017). Charles M. Weis, Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, has twice served as a Fulbright lecturer in American literature. His other honors include the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. His current projects include American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, under contact). Tim Cole, University of Bristow Institute at the University of Bristol, is the author of Images of the Holocaust/Selling the Holocaust (1999), Holocaust City (2003), Traces of the Holocaust (2011), and Holocaust Landscapes (2016) and a co-editor of Militarized Landscapes (2010) and Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). Sarah Cushman is Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and a lecturer in the History Department at Northwestern. The Holocaust Educational Foundation advances Holocaust education at the university level throughout the world by supporting schol- arship and teaching. She has been involved in Holocaust Education and scholarship for nearly two decades, serving as Director of Youth Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Long Island and Head of Educational Programming at the Strassler Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She earned her doctorate in Holocaust History from Clark University and her research centers on women’s experiences dur- ing the Holocaust. She is currently working on her frst book, Auschwitz: The Women’s Camp, which will be an adaptation of her dissertation. Jeffrey Scott Demsky is an Associate Professor of History at San Bernardino Valley College. His scholarship exists at the intersection of postwar American cultural history and Holocaust memorialization. Dr. Demsky’s manuscript, “Irreverent Remembrance: Nazi and Holocaust Memorialization in Anglo- American Popular Culture, 1945–2020” is under contract with Academic Studies Press. He has published numerous academic essays and articles on these topics in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany. Margarete Myers Feinstein holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945–1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), State Symbols: The Quest for Legitimacy in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1959 (Brill, 2002), and many articles. She teaches Contributors’ Notes 809 in the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University. Her research interests focus on how people came to terms with the legacies of Nazism, including questions of revenge and the return of German victims of Nazism. Hilene Flanzbaum is the Allegra Stewart Chair of Modern Literature and the Director of the MFA program at Butler University. She is the editor and a contributor to The Americanization of the Holocaust and the managing editor of Jewish-American Literature: A Norton Anthology. She has published arti- cles about Jewish-American literature in English Literary History; American Literary History; Studies in American Jewish Literature; and the Yale Journal of Criticism, among other places. Sandor Goodhart is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Purdue University in the Department of English and Director of the Religious Studies Program in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue. He is the author of seven books on literature, philosophy, and Jewish Studies including Of Levinas and Shakespeare: “To See Another Thus” (Purdue University Press, 2018; co-edited with Moshe Gold), Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical (Michigan State University Press, 2014), Sacrifce, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (Notre Dame University Press, 2011; co-edited with Ann Astell), For René Girard: Essays in Friendship and Truth (Michigan State University Press, 2009; co-edited with James Williams, Thomas Ryba, and Jørgen Jørgensen), Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garland, 2000), and Sacrifcing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). He directed the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue (1997–2002), the Philosophy and Literature Program (2005), and the Classical Studies Program (2007– 2011). He served as guest editor for a special issue of Shofar, 26.4 (Summer 2008) on Emmanuel Levinas, as the co-editor (with Monica Osborne) of a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, 54.1 (Spring 2008) on Emmanuel Levinas, and as the editor of a special issue of Religion: An International Journal, 37.1 (March 2007) on René Girard. In 2012 and 2013, he co-hosted (with Benoît Chantre) an international conference on Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard (“Du sacré au saint”) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the École Normale Supérieure. He is a founding board mem- ber of the North American Levinas Society (now in its ffteenth year), the former President of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (2004–2007), and the author of over one hundred essays. Claire Gorrara is Professor of French at Cardiff University and Dean of Research Culture and Environment. She has published widely on cultural memories of World War II in France, French women’s writing and French crime fction, including The Roman Noir in French Culture: Dark Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Past Crimes, Present Memories: French Crime Fiction and the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 810 Contributors’ Notes

2012). More recently, she has shifted her focus to visual cultures of war, with an article on British Army photographers in Liberation France for the Journal of War and Culture Studies (2016), and an article on French comic books and the Algerian War in the journal French Politics, Culture and Society (2018). She is currently writing a monograph on transnational narratives of war and the graphic novel. Marat Grinberg is Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, OR. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature in 2006. A scholar of both literature and flm, he is the author of two books, “I Am to Be Read Not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: From Right to Left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (2011) and Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar (2016), and a co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (2013). Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and former Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, which received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, and served as the senior founding editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Memoirs—Canada (Series 1 and 2). She is the editor of Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust Volume X: Back to the Sources (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming Shadows on the City of Lights: Jewish Post-War French Writing, of Hans Günther Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (2016), which received the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and of Encounter with Appelfeld, and other books. In addition, she is found- ing co-editor of the journal KEREM: A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism. She served as editor for Literature for The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture (ed. Judith Baskin). She publishes extensively on contemporary Holocaust literature, gender and Holocaust memory survivors, and Jewish North American fction. She served as President of the Association for Jewish Studies and sits on the Academic Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Academic Advisory Council of the Holocaust Education Foundation. Currently, she is complet- ing a book called “Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory.” Till Kinzel received his Dr. phil. (2002) and Habilitation (2005) from the Technical University of Berlin (English and American literature). He has published some books, on Allan Bloom (Platonische Kulturkritik in Amerika; 2002), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (2003; 4th ed. 2015), on Philip Roth (Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens, 2006), and on Michael Oakeshott (2007). He is currently writing a book on Johann Georg Hamann. Most recently, he has edited a number of writings and transla- tions by Johann Joachim Eschenburg (e.g., Von Chaucer zu Pope. Essays und Übersetzungen zur englischen Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit; Über William Hogarth und seine Erklärer; both 2013; Kleine Contributors’ Notes 811

Geschichte des Romans von der Antike bis zur Aufklärung; 2015) and co-ed- ited Imaginary Dialogues in English: Explorations of a Literary Form (2012) and Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy: Beyond the Mainstream (2014) and Audionarratology (2016, all with Jarmila Mildorf), as well as Johann Joachim Eschenburg und die Künste und Wissenschaften zwis- chen Aufklärung und Romantik (2013), a book on the reception of Edward Gibbon in Germany (2015) as well as Johann Arnold Ebert. Dichtung, Übersetzung und Kulturtransfer in der Aufklärung (2016; all with Cord- Friedrich Berghahn) and Johann Joachim Christoph Bode. Studien zu Leben und Werk (2017). Karolina Krasuska is Assistant Professor at American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, , and the founding director of the research unit Gender/Sexuality at the ASC. She is the author of a monograph examining modernist poetry from a transnational, gender-oriented perspective Płeć i naród: Translokacje [Gender and nation: Translocations], Warsaw 2012 and a co-editor and co-author of the pioneer Encyklopedia gender, Warsaw 2014. She is also the Polish translator of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (Uwikłani w płeć, Warszawa 2008). Her newest book publication is a co-edited vol- ume (with Andrea Peto and Louise Hecht) Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges, Warsaw 2015. Currently, she is working on a pro- ject on gendered modes of the twenty-frst-century Jewish-American fction. Joanna Krongold is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. She completed her MSt in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, where she studied literary representations of trauma. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the use of metaphor and fgura- tive dynamics in youth literature of the Holocaust. Jessica Lang is Professor of English at Baruch College. She is the founding Newman Director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center and the author of Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2017). Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies and Writing Programs at Northwestern University. Her publications include studies of interwar, World War II, and postwar women writers, including two books on the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Writers of World War II, Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust. She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller. Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). She was the recipient of the International Diamond Jubilee 812 Contributors’ Notes

Fellowship 2015–2017 at Southampton University, UK, for her work on Holocaust representation. She and Danny M. Cohen co-authored the intro- duction to their new edition of Gisella Perl’s memoir, I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz (Lexington Books, 2019). Her current and forthcoming publica- tions include essays on Polish post-Holocaust flm, Eva Hoffman’s post-Hol- ocaust play, The Ceremony, Josef Herman’s art of Holocaust lamentation, and the escape memoir of Trudi Kanter. She serves on the Education and Outreach Committee of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Holli Levitsky holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of California, Irvine. Founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Poland, a Schusterman Fellow at the Summer Institute for Israel Studies, a Florida International University Exile Studies Scholar- in-Residence, and co-directs the annual Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium. She works primarily in the areas of Jewish-American literature, Holocaust studies, and Exile studies, and has published articles, book chapters, and essays in these areas. Most recently, she is the co-editor of several volumes, New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Reading and Teaching (2019); The Literature of Exile and Displacement: American Identity in a Time of Crisis (2016) and Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (2015). Paule Lévy is Professor of American literature at the University of Versailles, France. Her research focuses on Jewish-American literature, ethnic studies, and women’s writing, on which she has written extensively. In addition to numerous articles, her book publications include Figures de l’artiste: iden- tité et écriture dans la littérature juive américaine de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle (2006), American Pastoral: La Vie réinventée (2012), and the edited or co-edited volumes, Profls américains: Philip Roth (2002), Ecritures contemporaines de la différence (2003), Mémoires d’Amériques (2009), Autour de Saul Bellow (2010), American Pastoral: Lectures d’une oeuvre (2011) and a Special Issue on Grace Paley (Journal of the Short Story in English, 2015). Shellie McCullough is currently a Humanities Lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas and the author of the book Engaging the Shoah Through the Poetry of Dan Pagis: Memory and Metaphor with Roman & Littlefeld (Dec 2016). Shellie’s work has also appeared in The University of Bucharest Review, World Literature Today as well as Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, in which she authored the entry for “Zionism.” Contributors’ Notes 813

Richard Middleton-Kaplan is Dean of Arts & Sciences, Criminal Justice, Education, and Human and Social Services at Walla Walla Community College in Washington State. In 2011, Richard spent a sabbatical at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at The University of York in England, where he helped to develop a course on literature and human rights. His articles have appeared in Leviathan, Modern Fiction Studies, The Canadian Journal of Peace and Confict Studies, and the collection Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature (University of Delaware Press, 2013). Richard’s essay “The Myth of Jewish Passivity” forms the opening section of Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis (The Catholic University of America Press, 2014). Golan Moskowitz is the Ray D. Wolfe Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses on post-Holocaust literature and Jewish comics and graphic novels. He has also taught at Smith College and Tufts University. Golan’s writing appears in Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, as well as In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2016), edited by Esther Jilovsky, Jordana Silverstein, and David Slucki. His monograph on queerness and Jewishness in the life and work of Maurice Sendak is forthcoming. Ira Nadel is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has written biographies of Leonard Cohen, Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, and Leon Uris and such critical works as Joyce and The Jews and Modernism’s Second Act. His pub- lished essays include “The Fingerprint and the Photograph: The Fiction of Biographical Facts,” “Oriental Modernism,” and “Laughter in Jerusalem: Brecht, Arendt and Eichmann,” forthcoming in Clio. Gila Safran Naveh is Professor of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature and Affliate Faculty in WGSS and European Studies. She is Judaic Studies Department Head and Endowed Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair. Professor Safran Naveh is author of Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations: From Apples of Gold in Silver Settings to Imperial Messages, published with SUNY Press and nominated for the national Jewish Book award in the Scholarly Division; contributing author to Cultural Shaping of Violence, with Purdue University Press, and American Jewish and Holocaust Literature, with SUNY Press, and co-editor of The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, with Reidel Press. Presently, Professor Naveh is complet- ing a book length entitled, Unpacking the Heart with Words: Women Survivors of the Holocaust Healing the Self. She is author of numerous scholarly articles engaging current theoretical frameworks and focusing on interdisciplinary approaches and global issues. For her outstanding teaching and scholarship, Professor Safran Naveh was awarded the A.B.D. Cohen Award for outstand- ing university teaching, the Edith Alexander Award, The Leading Edge Award, and the George C. Barbour Award. She has also received the Skirball Fellowship for excellence in research, a Fellowship at Oxford University, 814 Contributors’ Notes

NEH grants and numerous other travel and research grants. Professor Safran Naveh teaches Holocaust and Genocide, Film and Fiction, American Jewish Fiction, World Literature, Semiotics, Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism, Freud Studies, Kafka, Jewish and Women’s Humor, and Jewish Women Salons and Their Impact on History, and Culture, Identity, and Sexuality. Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affliated faculty member at the University of Haifa. He is the author or editor of 33 books, including Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left and Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State. His several books about modern poetry refect a long-term inter- est in Holocaust poetry. Sharon B. Oster is Professor of English at the University of Redlands, and author of No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Wayne State University Press, 2018). Her publica- tions on American, Jewish, and Holocaust literature include essays in English Literary History and Prooftexts, and forthcoming contributions to Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the 21st Century, and to a special issue, “Rethinking the Muselmann,” for The Journal of Holocaust Research. She has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, where she has developed digi- tal humanities pedagogical tools, including an interdisciplinary GIS map- ping project. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Holocaust literature and visual culture titled “Impossible Holocaust Metaphors: The Muselmann.” Ashley A. Passmore is Assistant Professor of German and International Studies at Texas A&M University. Her recent articles include “The Artful Dodge: The Appearance of the Schnorrer in German Literature” (Journal of Austrian Studies, 2017) and “Their Feet Will Become Fins Again: Theodor Herzl’s View of Darwinian Transformation” (Israel Studies, 2017). She is currently working on a monograph called “Axis Berlin/Tel Aviv” about the reevaluation of the idea of “Diaspora” for third-generation Israelis and German Jews. In 2014, she was awarded a fellowship by the Schusterman Institute of Israel Studies at Brandeis University. Avinoam J. Patt is the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he is also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization. Previously, he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University. He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Wayne State Contributors’ Notes 815

University Press, 2009) and the co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of a collected volume on Jewish Displaced Persons, titled We Are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (Wayne State University Press, 2010). He is a contributor to several pro- jects at the USHMM and is co-author of the recently published source vol- ume, Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1938–1940 (USHMM/Alta Mira Press, 2011). He has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclo- pedia articles on various topics related to Jewish life and culture before, dur- ing, and after the Holocaust and is director of the In Our Words Interview Project with the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Most recently, he is co-editor of the anthology of contemporary American Jewish fction The New Diaspora: The Changing Face of American Jewish Fiction. In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for American Jewish Fiction (with Victoria Aarons and Mark Shechner, Wayne State University Press, 2015 and fnalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies). Patt teaches courses on Modern Jewish History, American Jewish History, the Holocaust, the History of Zionism and the State of Israel, Jewish flm, and Modern Jewish Literature among others. He is currently co-editing a new volume on The Joint Distribution Committee: 100 Years of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press, 2017) and writing a new book on the early wartime and postwar memory of the Uprising. David Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and The University of Texas at Dallas. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than 35 books and more than 200 articles, essays, and book chapters on various topics in lit- erature, philosophy, the Holocaust, and Jewish studies. His most recent books include The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel: Portraits (forthcoming), The Holocaust and the Non-Representable (2018); Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (2015); Genocide in Jewish Thought (2012); and A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad (2011). Alexis Pogorelskin chaired the History Dept. of the University of Minnesota-Duluth for nineteen years. She has served as guest editor for Russian Review/Histoire Russe (2004), the Journal of Finnish Studies (2004), Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2018), and co-editor of a special issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945 (2020) devoted to international cinema. She was founding editor of The NEP Era: Soviet History, 1921–1928. In 2010, she was Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) and Sr. Research Fellow at RGASPI, the former party archive. In 2015, she was the frst Vera Brittain Scholar on Women and War at the University of Southampton. She has published exten- sively on the history of Russian liberalism in Oxford Slavonic Papers, Slavic Review, and with Cambridge University Press. She has also published exten- sively on the opposition to Stalin in the 1920s. An essay on that subject 816 Contributors’ Notes titled “Kamenev’s Revolutionary Biography and Trotsky’s Interpretation of it in Lessons of October” is forthcoming in the collection Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–1922. She is working on a monograph on the MGM feature flm of 1940, The Mortal Storm, titled America’s Mortal Storm: Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War. Her essay on the flm shared the Space Between prize in 2009. Her articles on that flm have appeared in The Space Between, Journal of European Popular Culture (co-authored with Phyllis Lassner), and a collection published by Northwestern University Press (co-authored with Phyllis Lassner). Another essay on Holocaust cinema is forthcoming in Jewish Cinema and New Media, titled “Questions of Jewish Identity: Comparing The Great Dictator to Genghis Cohn.” Megan V. Reynolds is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon where she studies contemporary American and Jewish Literature, Trauma Studies, and Visual Media. She has presented her work at the Chaminade University in Honolulu, Trinity University in San Antonio, and California State University in Palm Springs. She will begin her doctoral thesis in 2020 and is currently working on visual representations of Holocaust trauma in graphic memoirs and theories of subjectivity after extreme trauma. Naomi Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of Washington (Seattle). She teaches modern Jewish literature, Hebrew, and Israeli culture. She is the author of Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (1992) and of numerous articles on Israeli authors and on American Jewish literature. Her co-edited volumes include Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (1992); Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (1994); Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies (2002); Boundaries of Jewish Identity (2010); and a special issue of Prooftexts (2015) that focuses on the fction of David Grossman and evolution of Holocaust studies. Oren Baruch Stier is Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program and Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, where he also directs the Jewish Studies Certifcate Program. He is the author of Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) and co-editor of Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (Indiana University Press, 2006). He has been a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was the Guest Curator for an exhibition on “Race and Visual Culture under National Socialism” at The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at FIU’s Frost Art Museum in 2013. Stier has served as Co-Chair of the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group of the American Academy of Religion and was a founding board member of Limmud Miami. His current research, for which Contributors’ Notes 817 he was awarded a spring 2017 sabbatical, examines the dimensions of testi- mony in Elie Wiesel’s writings. Martín Urdiales-Shaw is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, French, and German at the University of Vigo, Spain, where he has been teaching since 2000. He belongs to the NETEC research group (netec.webs. uvigo.es), which promotes a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to modern and contemporary cultures and literatures in English, focus- ing on the study of textual and cultural practices regarding cultures in con- text and contact, the transmission of texts (through adaptation, rewriting, or translation), and transferences and negotiations between different genres and media. He specializes in the felds of ethnicity in American Literature, Jewish-American fction and culture, Translation Studies, Holocaust Studies, and graphic novels. His publications include the monograph Ethnic Identities in Bernard Malamud’s Fiction (Universidad de Oviedo, 2000) and articles and book chapters on the works of Malamud, Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Michael Gold, Clifford Odets, Edward Dahlberg, and Art Spiegelman. Within the feld of Holocaust-related poetry and testimony, he has published several book reviews in the journal Translation and Literature (Edinburgh University Press). His most recent publications include a contribution to Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute (Wayne State University Press, 2016) and the chapter “Race and Cultural Politics in Bellow’s Fiction” in The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Melissa Weininger is the Anna Smith Fine Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Associate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University. Her research focuses on Modern Hebrew and Yiddish litera- ture, and she is currently at work on a book project on diaspora Israeli lit- erature and culture. Her recent articles include, “A Poetic Paradox: Gender and Self in Anna Margolin’s Mary Cycle” (In Geveb, 2017) and “Nationalism and Monolingualism: the ‘Language Wars’ and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism” (Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2019). Edward B. Westermann, Professor of History at Texas A&M University- San Antonio, received his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (University Press of Kansas, 2005), and Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914– 1945 (University Press of Kansas, 2001). He also is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press, 2012). Dr. Westermann has published extensively in the areas of Holocaust and mili- tary history. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow on three occasions, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. 818 Contributors’ Notes

Anthony C. Wexler received his Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University, and he is currently a lecturer in the English department at Case Western Reserve University. He studies postwar American literature, special- izing in Jewish American literature and the Holocaust in American life. He has held research and teaching fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Colby College, Johns Hopkins University, and Northwestern University. His current book project is titled At a Distance of Years: The Novel of Aging in the Shadow of Auschwitz. In it, he examines how a group of late-life novels challenge the ways the Holocaust has been received and represented in American life. Index

A “Ainsi a-t-on beau” (Beckett), 694 Aarons, Victoria, 1 Aira, César, 514 on graphic storytelling of Holocaust, Akedah (binding of Isaac), 18 493–505 Alekseyeva, Julia, 252, 256–258 on third-generation narratives, 121, Alesch, Robert, 693 218 Alighieri, Dante, 34, 419, 432 abortions Allen, Woody, 221, 461 in concentration camps, 626 All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr), 788 Absurdistan (Shteyngart), 260 Also sprach Zarathustra [Thus Spoke Abuyah, Elisha ben, 15 Zarathustra] (Nietzsche), 206 Ackerman, Diane, 8, 91, 93–97 Altman, Tosia, 68 Adele-Marie, Wendy, 8, 725–737 Amalekite legend Adelman, Gary, 688, 689 rage and revenge and, 745 Ade, Maren, 450 Amar, Tarik, 253 Adler, Celia, 79 American Jewish Committee, 70 Adler, H.G., 687 American League for a Free Palestine, 79 Adler, Jankel, 692 American National Socialist Party, 331 Adler, Luther, 79 American Splendor series, 532 Adorno, Theodor, 31, 126, 308, 343 Amichai, Yehuda, 318 on Beckett, 687, 690, 698 Anderton, Joseph, 688 African-Americans, Holocaust and expe- Andrzejewski, Jerzy, 233 rience of, 178 Holy Week written by, 238–240 “Aftermath, Part Two” (X-Men comic), Warsaw Ghetto testimony of, 236 603 Angelus Novus (Klee), 225 Against Generational Thinking in Anglophone fction, Soviet Holocaust Holocaust Studies (Weissman), 30 narrative and, 254 Agamben, Giorgio, 796 Anielewicz, Mordechai, 534 aging, memory and effects of, 29–31 Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje), 798 Agnon, S.Y., 352 Ani Ma’amin: A Song Lost and Found Ahmed, Sara, 486 Again, (Wiesel), 19, 624

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Animal studies Astro, Alan, 181–196 flm and, 97–99 Astronauts (Lem), 296 representation of Holocaust in, 8, Aszendorf, Israel, 181, 188–196 91–104 Athens, Lonnie, 151 See Under: Love (Grossman) and, Atrocity (De-Nur), 620 99–104 Auden, W.H., 330 “An Animal to the Memory” Auerbach, Rachael, 84 (Bezmozgis), 251, 259 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 16 Antigone (Sophocles), 432 Auschwitz antisemitism comic book images of, 600–603 African Americans and, 178 flm representations of, 447 circumcision obsession and, 135 hierarchy of prisoners in, 712 in contemporary Germany, 217 non-prisoner women in, 716 Nazi patriotism linked to, 373 photographs of, 622–625, 633–645 Nazi poetry and promotion of, Sonderkommando revolt in, 429 357–394 survivors’ testimony about, 615–628 Polish resurgence of, 233–247 women’s camp in, 8, 401–414, women and, 727 707–720 Appadurai, Arjun, 762 Auschwitz (Croci), 533 Appelfeld, Aharon, 138, 144, 358, 697 Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Appignanesi, Lisa, 503 Land (Nomberg-Przytyk), 294, 715 Applebaum, Molly, 47, 54–59 Austin Powers, (flm), 537 “An Appointment With Hate” (Wiesel), Ausubel, Nathan, 83 744 “Autumn Day” (Rilke), 446 appropriateness, in children’s Holocaust auto-prosopopoeia literature, 112 in Diary of Anne Frank, 114 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War Avengers group, 745, 748 Polish reaction to, 298 Avisar, Ilan, 461 Soviet Jews and, 319, 321 Avodah (Labor) (flm), 478 Arbat trilogy (Rybakov), 268 Arbeitshäftlinge (forced workers), 605 Arbeter Ring, 77 B “Arènes de Lutèce” (Beckett), 695 Baade, Paul, 76 Argentina “Babii Yar” (Evtushenko), 276, 318 Holocaust literature in, 181–196 Babii Yar (Kuznetsov), 276 Arikha, Alba, 687 Babii Yar massacre, 275 Arikha, Avigdor, 687 Bachevanova, Svetlana, 775 Aristotle, 150 Bacon, Betty, 112 Arslan, Thomas, 450 Badenheim 1939 (Appelfeld), 358 art Baer, Elizabeth, 651–665 animal studies and role of, 96, 98, 103 Bair, Deirdre, 688 as countermonument, 486–488 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 538 “Aryan Papers” (Fink), 45–47 Bak, Samuel, 752 Ash and Fire (Pat), 75 “Ballad of the Jew’s Whore Marie “Ashes” (Lipkin), 319 Sanders” (Brecht), 446 assimilation, Jewish diffculties in America Balter, Herschel, 748 with, 542 bard movement, 320 Assmann, Aleida, 219, 234, 575 Bar-On, Dan, 4, 560 Index 821

Bartana, Yael, 475–488 “Biedni Polacy patrzą na getto” [“The Barthes, Roland, 634 Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto”] Bartov, Omer, 138, 142 (Błoński), 233, 242–244 Baskind, Samantha, 503 “Biedny Chrześcijanin patrzy na getto” “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto” (radio [“A Poor Christian Looks at the play), 67, 70 Ghetto”] (Miłosz), 233, 242 Battle of Waterberg, 652 Bitton-Jackson, Livia, 117 Bayer, Gerd, 504 Black Atlantic BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction Israel) literature of, 166 movement, 788 The Black Book of Russian Jewry, 270 beatrice & virgil (Martell), 700 Black Book (Verhoeven), 788 Beckett, Samuel black history Holocaust literature of, 5 Jewish history and, 167–168 on Holocaust, 687–700 Blackman, Jackie, 688, 693 Beckett’s Creatures (Anderton), 688 Blau, Magda, 715 Beckett’s Political Imagination (Morin), The Blessed Abyss (Herbermann), 661 688 Blessed is the Match (Syrkin), 81 Bellamy, Maria Rice, 789 Bleter oyfn vint [Leaves in the Wind] Bellow, Saul, 432 (Sneh), 187–188 Ben-Ami, Jacob, 73 Błoński, Jan, 233, 235 Benisch, Pearl, 749 criticism of, 234 Benjamin, Andrew, 160 cultural memory of Holocaust and, Benjamin, Walter, 225, 519 240–241 Benson, John, 494 moral transformation rhetoric and, Beran, Karel, 635 241–242 Berger, Alan L., 15–23 on Polish Catholic greatness, 242–244, on third-generation narratives, 218 247 Berger, Miriam, 747 Bloodlands (Snyder), 378 Bergson, Peter (aka Hillel Kook), 79 Blue Book on German atrocities, 653 Berko, Amelia, 750 Bock, Gisela, 8 Berlin…Endstation (Hilsenrath), Boder, David, 675 200–201 Bomba, Abraham, 431 Berliner, Dorothy, 680 Book League of the Jewish People’s Berlin, Isaiah, 334 Fraternal Order, 77 Berlin School (flm directors), 450 The Book Thief (Zusak), 594, 787 Berlinski, Hirsch, 68 bordellos, in concentration camps, 662 Berman, Adolf, 69 Borges, Jorge Luis, 195 Berman, Antoine, 514 Borowski, Tadeusz, 294 Berman, Russell, 366 Borzykowski, Tuvia, 68 Bernard-Donals, Michael, 670, 763, boyhood 770 in Holocaust fction and flm, 129–143 Bernstein, J.M., 156 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 144, 594 Between Witness and Testimony (Bernard- A Boy in Winter (Seiffert), 132–138 Donals and Glejzer), 670 Brandl, Theresa, 717 Bewer, Max, 360 Brando, Marlon, 79 Bezmozgis, David, 251, 259 Brandt, Willy, 447 Biale, David, 788 Braunhat, Helmut, 202 Biber, Jacob, 749 Brecht, Bertold, 446 822 Index

Brenner, Rachel F., 233–247 Polish identity with, 235–236 Briar Rose (Yolen), 120 Cayrol, Jean, 447, 448 Bridges to Memory (Bellamy), 789 Celan, Dan Brodsky, Joseph, 320 post-Holocaust assessment of, 9 Brombert, Victor, 34 Celan, Paul Brooks, Max, 797 “black milk” imagery of, 405 Brown, Bill, 762, 764 McCullough’s discussion of, 343 Browning, Christopher, 674 mother fgure in poetry of, 311 Brunstein, Esther, 749 publication in Russia of, 320, 321 Brygidki prison pogrom, 294, 298 Resnais’s Night and Fog and, 447 Budapesti tavasz (flm), 774 suicide of, 351 Bund traumatic realism in poetry of, and, 81 347–351, 349 “Burdened by feelings of kinship…” “Chance and Order” (Lem), 300 (Slutsky), 315 Chandler, Robert, 269 Burger, Ariel, 23 Chaplin, Charlie, 537 Buried Words (Appelbaum), 58 chastushki (Russian poetic tradition), 378 Burke, Kenneth, 770 Cheyette, Bryan, 168, 169 Bytwerk, Randall, 386 Chiens maudits [Bad Dogs] (Loustaunau- Lacau), 690 child abuse C women’s testimony about, 52–54 Call of the Wild (London), 130 children “The Calmative” (Beckett), 696 boyhood in Holocaust fction and flm, “Campo di Fiori” (Miłosz), 233, 129–143 237–238 sexuality in Holocaust accounts of, “Canto 45” (Pound), 362 45–61 Caplan, David, 327 children’s Holocaust literature Captain America, comic series, 542, 594 fgurative dynamics in, 111–125 “The Capital of the Ruins” (Beckett), choice 696 sexuality in women’s Holocaust Card, Claudia, 751 accounts and, 45–61 Carey, Mike, 601 “Chocolate” (Sneh), 185 Cargas, James, 19 “Christmas: 1924” (Hardy), 329 Caribbean literature Chute, Hillary, 495, 501, 504 intellectuals and, 166 Cichocki, Sebastian, 475 Jewish identity in, 166 circumcision “Carlsberg, May 11, 1941” (antisemitic antisemitic obsession with, 135 poem), 375 Jewish masculinity and, 134–135 Carter, Jimmy, 543 Claremont, Chris, 595, 596, 604 Caruth, Cathy, 165, 170, 787 Clark, Katarina, 269 Casteel, Sarah, 166 Clingman, Stephen, 171 catachresis, 789 Clowes, Edith, 276, 279, 282 Catastrophe (Beckett), 688 Coates, Paul, 244 Catholic Church Coetzee, J.M., 93, 172 in Wajda’s flms, 244–246 Coffn, William Sloane, 335 Nazi attacks on, 364 Cohen, Danny M., 121 Index 823

Cohen, Steven M., 554 D Cole, Tim, 633–645, 772 Dachau Colin, Amy, 349 comic book images of, 600–603 “The Collectors”, 380 Dalziel, Imogen, 634 Collins, Suzanne, 123 Danquart, Pepe, 132–134 Colman, Felicity, 445 Danziger, Gisela, 357 colonialism Danziger, Gustav, 357 sexual violence a, 651–660 Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken Come and See (flm), 426 [The Story of the Last Thought] comics (Hilsenrath), 200, 210 Aarons’s discussion of, 493–505 Dawidowicz, Lucy S., 68, 82 Holocaust representations in, “A Day at Harmenz” (Borowski), 294 529–543, 593–609 The Dead Class (Kantor), 294 irresponsible Holocaust representa- “Death Fugue” (Celan), 320, 321 tions in, 536–541 DEFA (Deutsche Film AG), 440 as third-generation narratives, deferred narratives 575–588 sexuality during Holocaust and, 46 comix movement, 532 deity (Din Torah) commentary, poetry of, 308 in Wiesel’s writing, 15–23 “Commitment” (Adorno), 309 Delbo, Charlotte, 401–414, 775 commodifcation of Holocaust Demsky, Jeffrey Scott, 529–543 memorial objects and, 772 De-Nur, Yehiel (Ka-tzetnik 135633), photograpy at Auschwitz and, 615–628 633–645 “Der Ewige Jude” (flm), 440 Complex Theatre (Dublin) Der Judenspiegel (Marr), 362 Delbo’s Who Will Carry the Word in, “Der Judenspiegel” (“A Mirror to the 409 Jews”), 362 complicity Der Judenspiegel (Pfefferkorn), 362 role of, in Holocaust studies, 31 “Der Meridan” (Celan), 347 Confessions (Augustine of Hippo), 16 Der Nazi & der Friseur (Hilsenrath), Confno, Alon, 133 201, 203–211 Contemporary literature Der Nes in Geto (Leivick), 67 Holocaust in, 790–794 Der Nes In Geto (The Miracle of the continuity thesis Ghetto) (Leivick), 74–75 Nazi ideology and culture and, de Rosnay, Tatiana, 788 651–660 Derrida, Jacques, 789, 796, 798 A Contract with God (Eisner), 532 Der Stürmer (newspaper), 359, 393 A Cookbook for Political Imagination, Der Völkermord (The Genocide) (Lem), 475, 477, 487 299–301 countermonument Derwin, Susan, 48, 61 art as, 486–488 Desintegriert Euch! [Disintegrate Cramer, Ludwig, 658 Yourselves!] (Czollek), 220 Croci, Pascal, 533 de Souza Bierrenbach, Ana Maria, 517 Crumb, Robert, 532 Des Pres, Terrence, 404, 534 Curb Your Enthusiasm (television series) The Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen), 120 “Survivor” episode, 531 de Waal, Edmund, 2 Cushman, Sarah, 8, 707–720 Diamant, Naomi, 2 Czollek, Max, 220, 221 Diamond of the Night (Nĕmec), 131 824 Index

Diary of Anne Frank Eichler, Jeremy, 80 fgurative dynamics and, 114–116 Eichmann, Adolf “The Diary of Mini Horrorwitz”, survivors’ testimony about, 615–628, 567–570 675 “Di bagegenish” [The Encounter] trial of, 269 (Aszendorf), 194–195 Eichmann, Veronika (Vera), 727, 729, “Die Bleierne Zeit” (The German 734 Sisters), 445 Eilat, Galit, 475 “Dieppe” (Beckett), 695 Einhorn, Barbara, 224 Die Niemandsrose (Celan), 347 Eisen, Arnold M., 554 Di Goldene Keyt, 84 Eisenstein, Bernice, 505 “Dimensions in Testimony” holographic Eisler, Hanns, 447 museum, 675, 683 Eisner, Will, 493, 532 Diner, Hasia, 531 Ekelöf, Gunnar, 352 DiPaolo, Marc, 594 “Elegy to Yiddish” (Aszendorf), 190 Disaster Drawn (Chute), 495 Eleutheria (Beckett), 688 Disintegration Congress (Berlin), 221 “The Eleventh Voyage” (Lem), 288, Disintegriert Euch! [Disintegrate 292, 295 Yourselves!] (Czollek), 220 Eliot, T.S., 335, 336 Di Yiddishe Tsaytung, 75–77 Ellis, Frank, 382 Doerr, Anthony, 788 El pan y la sangre [Bread and Blood] Dos geshrey in der nakht [The Cry in the (Sneh), 182 Night] (Sneh), 186 Emerson, Caryl, 269 Dream of Fair to Middling Women Emil and Karl (Glatsheyn), 113 (Beckett), 691, 692 “The End” (Beckett), 697 Drechsler, Horst, 653 Endgame (Beckett), 687, 690, 698 Dreifus, Erika, 556 The End of the Holocaust (Rosenfeld), Dreschler, Margot, 717 28–29 Dres, Jérémie, 579, 588 Ensslin, Gudrun, 445 The Drowned and the Saved (Levi), 521 Epstein, Helen, 555 gray zone chapter in, 36–40 Erll, Astrid, 254 Wexler’s analysis of, 27–41 Ertel, Judith, 518 Druker, Jonathan, 27 “Eternal Transit” (Galich), 321 Drury, John, 330 ethics of Holocaust representation, 7 “Dry September” (Faulkner), 798 identity-deliberation and, 160–161 Ethics (Spinoza), 694 Ethiopian Jews E Phillips’s discussion of, 175 Eaglestone, Robert, 594, 796 Europa, Europa (flm), 134, 143 “Echo’s Bones—The Vulture” (Beckett), Europa, Europa (Perel), 131 694 The European Tribe (Phillips), 166, 167, Edelman, Marek, 68 169 Edfelt, Johannes, 352 Shylock discussed in, 174 Education After Auschwitz (Adorno), 31 And Europe Will Be Stunned video instal- education on Holocaust lation, 475–488 changing strategies in, 30–31 Evening Standard (London), 68 Ehrenburg, Ilya, 270–271, 276, 281, Everything Is Illuminated (Foer), 332, 311 790–794 Eichengreen, Lucille, 751 Evtushenko, Evgenii, 276 Index 825

Exit Ghost (Roth), 29 Fogu, Claudio, 4 “The Expelled” (Beckett), 697 Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur, 693 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close For Every Sin (Applefeld), 697 (Foer), 790–794 The Forgotten (Wiesel), 21–22 “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit, 774 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Ezrahi, Sidra, 520 Testimonies, 671, 676 Four Quartets (Eliot), 335 fourth-generation Holocaust narratives, F 252 Fackenheim, Emil, 628 Frank, Anne fairy tales comic and cartoon images of, 537 fgurative dynamics in, 120–122 fgurative dynamics in work of, Family Guy (television series), 531, 537 114–116 Fast, Howard, 77 Phillips on infuence of, 166, 175 Fatelessness (Kertész), 131 Roth’s absurdist representation of, 535 Faurholt, Gry, 162 Frankel, Alona, 484 Fax from Sarajevo (Kubert), 534 Franklin, Ruth, 327 Federman, Raymond, 688 Frankl, Viktor, 532 Feinstein, Margarete, 131, 743–756 Frederick Downing, Frederick, 17 Feldman, Jackie, 531 Freedman, Jonathan, 778 Feldman, Jeffrey, 771 Frenssen, Gustav, 656 Feldman, Mania, 752 Freud, Sigmund, 538, 786 Feldstein, Al, 493–505 Fridman, Yoram, 138 Felman, Shoshana, 787 Friese, Heidrun, 155 The Female Face of God in Auschwitz Frohlinger, Alexander, 680 (Delbo), 407 Frye, Northrup, 330 Feuer, Kathryn, 271 Funk, Mirna, 217–227 fgurative dynamics The Futurological Congress (Lem), 301 Holocaust as, 122–125 futurology, Lem’s writing about, 301 in Diary of Anne Frank, 114–116 in fairy tales, 120–122 in postwar memoirs, 116–118 G in youth Holocaust literature, Gäbler, Ira, 747 111–125 Gajewska, Agnieszka, 288, 296 flm Galich, Aleksandr, 308, 320–324 Holocaust images in, 417–434 Garloff, Katja, 224 Jewish bodies in, 439–454 Garrison, Alysia, 688 traumatic realism in, 459–473 The Gates of the Forest (Wiesel), 20, 24 Film Guild (Nazi organization), 441 Gateward, Frances, 132 flm, Holocaust in Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss), 595 children in, 104 gender in Holocaust fction and flm, 129–143 Aryan feminity and, 725–737 Fink, Ida, 45–47 in Holocaust fction and flm, 129–143 Fishman, Boris, 252, 258–259 intergenerational trauma and, 560–562 Fitterman, Robert, 337 Nazi ideology and culture and, 8–9, A Flag is Born (Hecht), 79–80 651–665 Flanzbaum, Hilene, 2 personhood and, 94 Flying Couch (Kurzweil), 505, 580 rage and revenge and, 748–753 Foer, Jonathan Safran, 790–794 generational chasm 826 Index

memory of Holocaust and, 33–36 Gouri, Haim, 617 The Genocidal Gaze: From German Grade, Chaim, 147–161 Southwest Africa to the Third Reich The Grail (journal), 660 (Baer), 652 A Grammar of Motives (Burke), 770 Geppert, Hans Vilmar, 200 graphic novels, 493–505 German Democratic Republic Aarons’s discussion of, 493–505 in third-generation Holocaust narra- graphic novels as, 575–588 tives, 222 Holocaust narrative in, 529–543, 252 German Diaries 1936-37 (Beckett), 692 The Great Dictator (flm), 537 German Jewish experience Greenspan, Henry, 48, 672 in third-generation narratives, 219, Gregor the Overlander (Collins), 123 224 Greif, Gideon, 432 German South West Africa (GWSA) The Grey Zone (flm), 430 Nazi ideology and culture and, Grinberg, Marat, 296, 307–325 651–665 Gropper, William, 77 Germany Gross, Jan, 234, 763 contemporary Holocaust studies and, Gross, Magdalena, 96, 98 217 Grossman, David, 4, 91, 93, 560 Nazi’s binary vision of, 386–394 Grossman, Vasily recent Jewish migrants to, 220 fction of, 268–275, 324 Gershenson, Olga, 258 as news correspondent, 267, 281 The Ghost Writer (Roth), 535 Rybakov compared to, 267, 280–283 Gies, Miep, 115, 538 group identity Gilman, Sander, 8, 135 in German Jewish experience, 219 Gilroy, Paul, 166 memory and, 165 Ginzburg, Lev, 320 The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), Gitelman, Zvi, 253 199 Glanz, Armin, 636 Glatshteyn, Yankev, 113 Glatstein, Jacob, 189 H Glejzer, Richard, 670 Haendler, Cecilia, 225 Gliński, Mikołaj, 288, 296 Haendler, Yair, 225 “Gloria SMH” Resistance cell, 690, 700 Haft, Cynthia, 412 Glucksman, Sidney, 748 “Hail to our Führer!” (“Heil unserm God Führer!”), 390 in Wiesel’s writing, 15–23 Halbwachs, 234 Goebbels, Josef, 392 Halperin, Irving, 116 Goebbels, Magda, 725, 727, 729, 733, Hammerschlag, Sarah, 486 736 “Hannah Arendt” (flm), 445 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 329 Hardy, Thomas, 329 Goldenberg, Eliyahu, 617 The Hare with Amber Eyes (de Waal), 2 Golden Harves (Gross), 763 Harlow, Jules, 336 Golding, William, 130 Harry Potter series (Rowling), 123 Goldstein, Rebecca, 332 Hartman, Geoffrey, 48, 503, 530 Goligorsky, Eduardo, 514 Hartmann, Christian, 382 Goodhart, Sandor, 459–473 Hartmann, Wolfram, 654 Gordon, Lois, 688 Hasse, Elisabeth, 717 Gorrara, Claire, 575–588 Hauptman, Sara, 752 Index 827

Hausner, Gideon, 615 Hogan’s Heroe (television series), 537 Haynes, Steven, 129 Holland, Agnieska, 144 Heavy Sand (Rybakov), 268, 275–283 Holocaust (mini-series), 84, 461 Hebrew Holocaust Museum (Fitterman), 337 Holocaust poetry in, 345 Holocaust studies Hecht, Anthony, 327 animal studies and, 92–94 Hecht, Ben, 79 postmodern condition and, 794–799 Heck, Lutz, 94, 98 trauma studies and, 785–799 Hegel, G.F.W., 419 twenty-frst century approaches to, 1 Heimat: A German Family Album Holocaust Testimonies (Langer), 671 (Krug), 588 Holy Week (flm), 244–246 Heine, Heinrich, 223 Homa u’migdal (wall and tower) Jewish Heisenberg, Benjamin, 450 settlements in Palestine, 481 Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld, 47, 48–49, 51, Homo Sacer (Agamben), 796 59 homosexuality Helmreich, William, 555 in women’s Holocaust narratives, 56 Herbermann, Nanda, 660 Horn, Dara, 772 Herero people Horowitz, Sara R., 45–61 German colonial genocide of, 651–660 The Hospital of Transfguration (Lem), “Here the Nazi Butchers Wasted 295 Nothing” (Snow), 766 Höss, Rudolf, 717 Herf, Jeffrey, 360 House of Dolls (De-Nur), 621 Herman, Judith, 747 Howe, Irving, 29, 336 Hersey, John, 67 “Huhediblu” (Celan), 347–351 Heydrich, Lina, 727, 729, 736 HumHAG (German law), 220 Heydrich, Reinhard, 605, 709, 736 “humor chic” cartooning, 534 Heydrich, Silke, 730 in Holocaust narratives, 534 Highcastle: A Remembrance (Lem), Hungerford, Amy, 560 292–293, 300 Huyssen, Andreas, 222 Higher Ground (Phillips), 167 Hilsenrath, Edgar, 199–211 CD recordings by, 202 I Himmelfarb, Milton, 155 identity-deliberation Himmler, Heinrich, 601, 661, 662, 708, ethical engagement and, 160–161 732 Grade’s “My Quarrel”, 147–161 Himmler, Margarethe, 730 If This is a Man (Levi), 699 Hirsch, Joshua, 5 Ignatieff, Michael, 334 Hirsch, Marianne, 530 The Incredible Hulk (comic series), 604 Hirsch, Roslyn, 294 Inferno (Dante), 419, 432 Hirt, August, 601 Inglourious Basterds (flm), 221, 536 His Master’s Voice (Lem), 297–299, 301 In Heldiszn Gerangl [In Heroic Hitler, Adolf Struggle], 81 cartoon images of, 542, 595 “In Love with Hiding” (Perloff), 693 in Hilsenrath’s fction, 203–211 Insdorf, Innette, 445, 461 poetry to cult of, 386–394 intergenerational trauma Stalin compared to, 273–275 third-generation Holocaust literature women’s admiration for, 726 and, 217–227 Hochhäusler, Christoph, 450 internal rhetoric Hoffman, Eva, 1 Nienkamp’s theory of, 154 828 Index

International Workers Order, 77 K In the Shadow of No Towers (Spiegelman_, Kafka, Franz, 432 433 Kanal, Israel, 68 “I Saw It” (Selvinsky), 313 Kandel, Michael, 298 Israel Kansteiner, Wulf, 4 Jewish migration to Germany from, Kantor, Tadeusz, 294 221 Karinthy, Ferenc, 775 “It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You Avoid Kasakove, David, 494 It” (Hecht), 329 Katin, Miriam, 505 I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Katz, Daniel, 688 (Eisenstein), 505 Ka-tzetnik 135633 (Holocaust survivor), 615–628 Ka-tzetnik Prize, 618 J Katz, Steven, 20 Jablon, Bronia, 47, 49–51 Kaufman, Debra, 554 Jacob, Rosamond, 691 Kazin, Alfred, 27 The Jargon of Authenticity (Adorno), 698 Keilbach, Judith, 633 Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive, Kent, Elizabeth, 639 672 Kertész, Imre, 131 Jeffords, Susan, 129 Kertzer, Adrienne, 112 Jewish-American literature Khrushchev, NIkita, 268, 273, 282, Hecht’s poetry, 327 317 The Jewish Daily Forward, 72 Kinzel, Till, 199–211 Jewish Frontier, 81 Kirby, Jack, 542, 595 Jewish identity Klee, Paul, 225 in Holocaust narratives, 147–161 Klein, Helene, 718 Jewish Labor Committee, 68, 72 Klepfsh, Michael, 69 Jewish National Committee, 69 Klimov, 426 Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, 77 Kluger, Ruth, 2–3 Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland Knowlson, James, 688, 690, 693–694 (JRMiP), 475–488 Kolitz, Zvi, 75–77 Jewish revitalization projects “Kontingentfüchtlinge” (quota refugees) in contemporary Germany, 220 (Germany), 221 Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), 72, Kovner, Abba, 745, 748 68–70 Kowalczuk, Iko-Sascha, 222 The Jew’s Body (Gilman), 8 Kramer, Stanley, 269 The Jews of Silence (Wiesel), 20 Krasuska, Karolina, 251–260 John Paul II (Pope), 235 Kremer, S. Lillian, 4, 530 Jones, David Houston, 688 Krigstein, Bernie, 493–505 Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr Kristeva, Julia, 414 (Hilsenrath), 200 Krongold, Joanna, 111–125 Jouvet, Louis, 401 Krug,Nora, 588 Judgment at Nuremberg (flm), 269 Kruk, Herman, 625 “Jud Süss” (flm), 440 Kubert, Joe, 505, 533 Jukovsky, Martin, 493 Kukulin, Ilya, 308 Julius, Anthony, 336 Kurzweil, Amy, 9, 505, 580 Index 829

L Lengyel, Olga, 765 LaCapra, Dominick, 530 Léon, Paul, 690, 693 Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 419 Lerski, Helmar, 478 Lageröf, Selma, 352 LeStrange, Gesele, 347 Lamont, Rosette, 688–689 Letste shriftn (Last Writings) (Aszendorf), Landsberg, Alison, 531 189 Lang, Berel, 2, 9–10 “Let Us Die Fighting”: The Struggle Langefeld, Johanna, 717 of the Herero and Nama against Langer, Lawrence, 27, 48 German Imperialism (1884-1915) “choiceless choice” concept of, 118 (Drechsler), 653 on Holocaust testimonies, 671 Levi, Primo on postwar memoirs, 116 Beckett on, 699 Lang, Jessica, 439–454 on degradation of camps, 712 Lanzmann, Claude, 234, 418, 432 on language, 521, 795 interview style of, 675 on life and material objects, 761 traumatic realism of, 344 on survivors, 420 Larkey, Uta, 367 post-Holocaust assessment of, 9 “La sexta punta” [The Sixth Point], 185 suicide of, 27–28 Lassner, Phyllis, 1, 121, 129–143 Wexer’s analysis of, 27–41 The Last Days (flm), 682 Levi, Renzo, 29 The Last Goodbye, 683 Lévy, Paule, 165–176 Last Judgment (Memling), 37 “A Liberal’s Auschwitz” (Ozick), 168 Last Laugh (flm), 531 Life and Fate (Grossman), 267–275, Laub, Dori, 48, 52, 787 280–283 Laytner, Anson, 18 A Life Force (Eisner), 532 Leavitt, Moses, 84 Life is Beautiful (flm), 594, 788 Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher (Life Lindergren, Erik, 352 with a war crimina (Heydrich), 730 Lines of Time, 320 lebensraum Linville, Susan, 445 as colonial legacy, 652 Lipkin, Raphael, 21 Hitler’s campaign for, 728 Lipkin, Semyon, 308, 317–320, 323 Le cinquième fls/The Fifth Son (Wiesel), Lipstadt, Deborah, 82 744, 755 Litvak, Olga, 317 Le convoi du 24 janvier (Convoy to London, Jack, 130 Auschwitz) (Delbo), 401 London, Yaron, 485 Ledent, Bénédicte, 171 Look Magazine Lee, Stan, 595 comic images of Hitler in, 595 Leff, Leonard, 461 Lopate, Phillip, 296 Leitner, Isabella, 718 Lord of the Flies (Golding), 130 Leivick, H., 67, 72, 74, 188 Lorenz, Konrad, 92 Lem, Stanisław “The Lost Ones” (Beckett), 699 early work of, 294–296 Lothe, Jacob, 2 faux book reviews by, 299–301 Loustaunau-Lacau, Georges, 690 futurology works by, 301 Lubetkin, Tzivia, 68 personal life in fction of, 296–297 Lüderitz, Adolf, 652 science fction of, 287 Lumet, Sidney, 460 Lemelman, Martin, 505 Lustiger, Jean-Marie, 16 830 Index

M aging and loss of, 29–34 Mad Magazine, 532 failed politics of cultural memory, Maercker, Andreas, 747 240–241 The Magic People: an Irishman Appraises group identity and, 165 the Jews (Ussher), 692 in third-generation graphic narratives, Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom 583–587 Kippur, 336 metaphor and, 773 Malamud, Bernard multidirectionality of, 165, 483–486 on Jewish identity, 168 pathemic (affective), 425 Mama Penee Transcending the Genocide, Soviet genealogy of, 253 657 time and alteration of, 31–33 Mandel, Maris, 717 visual allusion and, 478–479 Manhattan (flm), 221 Memory, Trauma, and History (Roth), Man Search for Meaning (Frankl), 532 787 Mantel, Hilary, 167 Mendel’s Daughter (Lemelman), 505 “Marianne and Juliane” (flm), 439, 444 Men, Father Alexander, 320 Máriássy, Félix, 774 Mengele, Josef, 601 Markish, Peretz, 314 Mesnard, Philippe, 432 Marr, WIlhelm, 362 metaphor Martel, Yann, 700 memory and, 773 Mary Koszmary (Nightmares or Haunted “Metaphor and Memory” (Ozick), 168 Dreams), which video installation, Holocaust as metaphor and, 122–125 476, 479 memory and, 168, 761 masculinity Spiegelman’s use of, 118–120 in Holocaust fction and flm, 129–143 metonymy “Master Race” (Krigstein and Feldstein) memorial objects and, 770 Aarons’s discussion of, 493–505 Michel, Ilse, 712 material objects MIddleton-Kaplan, Richard, 287 memory and, 773 Midrash Rabbah Lamentations (Wiesel), Maus (Spiegelman) 19 animal studies and, 92 migrants critical success of, 495, 530 crisis in Germany involving, 227 English and Yiddish vernacular in, in post-Soviet era, 251–260 511–525 Jewish migrants, German programs intergenerational trauma and, 587 for, 220 intergenerational trauma in, 559, 576 Mikhoels, Solomon, 314 metaphor in, 118–120 Mila 18 (Uris), 84 objects as metaphor in, 764 Millar, Mark, 604 Spanish and Romance language publi- Miller, Frank, 604 cation of, 514–519 Miller, Nancy K., 512 translations of, 511–525 Millu, Liana, 662, 712 Mazursky, Paul, 433 Miłosz, Czesław, 233 McClatchy, J.D., 333 Warsaw Ghetto testimony of, 236 McCormack, W.J., 693 Minz, Alan, 432 McCullough, Shellie, 343–355 Miracle of the Warsaw Ghetto (Lievick), The Measure of Our Days (Delbo), 402 73 Memling, Hans, 37 Mitchell, Breanna, 633 memory Modan, Rutu, 580 Index 831

Molloy (Beckett), 699 The Nature of Blood (Phillips), 165–176 “More Light! More Light!” (Hecht), Naveh, GIla Safran, 417–434 328 Na ve’nad (Sneh), 186, 182–184 More Pricks than Kicks (Beckett), 691 Nazarian, Allison, 555 Morin, Emilie, 688 “Nazi Beast” trope Moskowitz, Golan, 553–570 in Holocaust literature, 101 mother in literary and cultural studies, 92 in Holocaust poetry, 311 Nazi ideology and culture murder of, in Holocaust testimony, Aryan feminity and, 725–737 615–628 perspectives of perpetrators, 8 Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty sexual violence a, 651–660 (Rose), 567 Nazi Reichskommissariat Ukraine, 377 Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow), 432 Negative Dialectics (Adorno), 698 Mucha, Stanislav, 633 Neighbors (Gross), 234 Muckermann, Friedrich (Father), 660 Nelson, Cary, 8, 357–394 Mueller, Agnes, 224 Nelson, Tim Blake, 430 Müller, Filip, 431 Neme, László, 417–434 Müller, Irmgard, 711 Nĕmec, Jan, 131 Multidirectional Memory: Remembering Never to Forget, The Battle of the Warsaw the Holocaust in an Age of Ghetto (Fast & Gropper), 77–78 Decolonization (Rothberg), 165 New German Cinema, 444, 450 Multidirectional Memory (Rothberg), The New Rhetoric (Perelman and 165, 789 Olbrechts-Tyteca, 149 Muni, Paul, 79 news coverage Murav, Harriet, 254 Warsaw Ghetto Revolt, 68–70 “The Murderers Are Among Us” (flm), Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 150 439–444 Niendorf-Broda-Klemm, Trude, 390 Mur I Wieza (Wall and Tower) video Nienkamp, Jean, 154, 159 installation, 476 “Night and Fog” (“Nuit et Brouillard”) Murphy (Beckett), 694 (flm), 447 museum exhibitions Night (Wiesel) representations of Holocaust in, 6 critical reactions to, 532 Mussarists, 162 images of children and youth in, “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” 116–118 (Grade), 147–161 rage and revenge in, 756 self-deliberation in, 149–160 theological perspectives in, 15–16 translations of, 525 Winfrey’s promotion of, 788 N Yiddish precursor to, 743 Nacht (1964) [Night] (Hilsenrath), 202 “Nisht oysgemitn dem goyrl” [The Fate Nadel, Ira, 5, 687–700 Not Averted] (Aszendorf), 191 Nahshon, Edna, 79 Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara, 294, 622, 715 Nama people None of Us Will Return (Delbo), 402 German colonial genocide of, 651–660 No Racism, No Antisemitism (Palombo), Naming Beckett’s Unnamable (Adelman), 534 688 “Notes on Beckett” (Adorno), 699 narrative Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz (We Holocaust studies as, 3–4 Won’t See Auschwitz) (Dres), 579 third-generation narratives, 7 Nowogrodzki, Mark, 82 832 Index

Noy (Neustadt), Melech, 69 pathemic (affective) memory, 425 Nyiszli, Miklos, 431 Pat, Jacob, 72, 75 patriotism Nazi antisemitism linked to, 373 O Patt, Avinoam J., 67–85 “O die Schornsteine” (“O the Patterson, David, 615–628 Chimneys”) (Sachs), 353 Pauer, Guya, 773 “Ohne mich” [Without Me] (Funk), 217 Paul, Christa, 662 Oktiabr’ (journal), 275 Paulsson, Gunnar, 255 Okudzha, Bulat, 320 The Pawnbroker (flm), 459–473 Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie, 149 pedagogy in Holocaust studies, 31 Omer-Sherman, Ranen, 503 Pekar, Harvey, 532 Ondaatje, Michael, 798 The Penal Colony (Kafka), 432 Oneg Shabbat, 625 Perelman, Chaïm, 149 Open Heart (Wiesel), 22 Perel, Solomon, 131, 134, 138 “” death camps, 604, Perlaki, Judith, 639 709 Perl, Gisella (Dr.), 765 “Organizzazione Otto”, 663 Perloff, Marjorie, 690, 693 Orlev, Uri, 132–134 Péron, Alfred, 690 Orwell, George, 794 personhood Oster, Sharon, 6 animal studies and, 93 Othello personifcation in “European Tribe”, 169 in children’s Holocaust literature, 113 in Nature of Blood, 167, 173 Peter Moor’s Journey to the Southwest Othello (Shakespeare), 174 (Frenssen), 656 Otto, Rudolf, 406 Petropolis (Ulinich), 260 Oyf fremde vegn [On Foreign Ways] Pettitt, Joanne, 576 (Sneh), 182 Petzold, Christian, 450 Oysyes (Letters) (Aszedorf), 189 Pfefferkorn, Johannes, 362 Ozick, Cynthia, 27 Pfeffer, Morris, 637 on Eliot, 336 Phelan, James, 2 on Holocausst, 168 Phillips, Caryl, 165–176 on images, 440 philosemitism, 203 on Levi’s suicide, 28, 37 The Philosophy of Art (Hegel), 419 on metaphor, 168 “Phoenix” (flm), 439, 449 photography as evidence, 766 P by survivors, 633–645 Pagis, Dan graphic novels and use of, 587 McCullough’s discussion of, 343 of Auschwitz, 622–625 poetry of, 775 of colonial sexual violence, 657 post-Holocaust assessment of, 9 The Pianist (flm), 426 traumatic realism in poetry of, Picabia, Jean, 693 344–347 Plath, Sylvia, 99 Pakula, Alan, 433 Podgorny, Nikolai, 282 Palombo, AleXsandro, 534 Poèmes 1937-39 (Beckett), 695 “Part Hole” (Moskowitz), 564 poetic tradition A Part of Me (Jablon), 49–51 Hecht’s postwar poetry and, 327 Passmore, Ashley, 217–227 in Holocaust literature, 237 Index 833

in Russian Holocaust literature, Prague Spring, 298 307–325 A Prayer for the Days of Awe (Wiesel), 21 McCullough’s examination of, pregnancy 343–355 as survivors’ revenge, 752 Nazi promotion of antisemitism using, Presner, Todd, 4 357–394 Previtali, Cristina, 519 poetry, 307–325 Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, 4 Pogorelskin, Alexis, 267–283 The Property (Modan), 580 Poland “The Prophet Jonah” (Stoltze), 380 Catholicism in, 233–247 Provocation (Lem), 299–301 contemporary return of Jews to, psychic integration 475–488 representation and, 434 post-war political ideology in, 294 psychology of revenge, 747 right-wing government in, 234 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and, 233–247 Polanski, Roman, 433 Q Pomerance, Murray, 132 queer studies popular culture intergenerational trauma and, 560– Holocaust in, 785–799 562, 567–570 Holocaust representations in, 593–609 Quiet Americans (Dreifus), 556 intergenerational trauma and, 567–570 prominence in American popular cul- ture of, 104 R third-generation narratives and, Raddatz, Fritz J., 203 553–570 “Radikal jüdische Kulturtage” [“Radical post-Holocaust studies Jewish Culture Days”] festival, 221 Soviet Jewish culture in, 316–317 Radnóti, Miklós, 394 theological protest and, 18 Rafe du Velodrome d’Hiver, 692 postmemory rage contemporary diasporic literature and, in women’s Holocaust accounts, 789 45–61 Holocaust survival and, 480 rage and revenge in second-generation Holocaust narra- gender and, 748–753 tives, 530 of survivors, 743–756 postmodernism psychology of, 747 Holocaust studies and, 794–799 Rage is the Subtext (Derwin), 61 poststructuralism Rassenschande (German racial shame), Holocaust studies and, 794–799 655 postwar Jewish literature Ravitch, Melech, 188 fgurative dynamics in, 116–118 The Reader (Schlink), 429 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in, 67–85 A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett Pound, Ezra, 362 (Kenner), 688 power Red Army Faction (RAF), 445 in women’s Holocaust accounts, “Reich Business” (Beckett), 697 45–61 Reichert, Orli, 715 zoos as abuse of power, 94 Reich, Walter, 541 Powers of Horror (Kristeva), 414 “Reisebilder” [Travel Pictures] (Heine), Prager, Jeffrey, 48 223 834 Index

Reiss, Johanna, 117 Rodríguez, Roberto, 515 “Relatives of Christ” (Slutsky), 316, 323 “The Rogue of a Jew”, 330 Remembering Survival (Browning), 674 Rose, Jacqueline, 567 A Replacement Life (Fishman), 252, Rosen, Alan, 511, 675 258–259 Rosenblum, Ralph, 461 representations of Holocaust Rosenfeld, Alvin, 27 irresponsible Holocaust representa- on fgurative language and metaphor, tions in, 536–541 111 Nazi ideology and culture and, on Levi’s work, 28–29 651–660 on objects as metaphor, 762 photograpy at Auschwitz and, Rosenshield, Gary, 275, 277, 280 633–645 “Rosenstrasse” (flm), 445 psychic integration and, 434 Roskies, David, 2, 91 recent innovations in, 6 on postwar memoirs, 116 “Representing Holocaust Trauma” on Yiddish literature, 155, 158 (Verstrynge), 461 Rotem, Simcha (Kazik), 68 “Requiem for Those Who Were not Rothberg, Michael P., 120, 165 Killed or the Song Composed in on dialect and vernacular, 512 Error” (Galich), 321 on memory and group identity, 165 rescue stories on multidirectional memory, 227, 317, as rescuers, 138–140 483, 789 in popular culture, 104 on Phillips’s Nature of Blood, 169 Resistance on traumatic realism, 344 Beckett’s participation in, 693 Roth, Michael S., 787 Resnais, Alain, 447 Roth, Philip responsible fction absurdist Holocaust representation German colonal genocide, 531 and, 535 restoration Levi’s infuence on, 29 Holocaust narratives and myth of, on writing, 10 141–142 Rottenberg, Anda, 484 reverse migration narratives, 259 Rousset, David, 520 Reynolds, Daniel, 644 Rowling, J.K., 123 Reynolds, Megan V., 147–161 rubble flms (trümmerflme), 440 Ricks, Christopher, 336 Rubenstein, Richard, 18 Riefenstahl, Leni, 479 Rubin, Agi, 711 Rifas, Leonard, 495 Rubinstein, Artur, 299 Righteous Gentiles Run Boy Run (flm), 132–134 prominence in popular culture of, 104 rescue narrative in, 139 “The Rights of History and the Rights of Run Boy Run (Orlev), 132–134 Imagination” (Ozick), 440 landscape in, 135–138 Rigney, Ann, 2 rescue narrative in, 139 Ringelblum, Emanuel, 81, 625 Ruppert, Elisabeth, 717 Ringelblum Oneg Shabbes archive, 76 Ruprecht, Philipp, 362 “Rites and Ceremonies” (Hecht), 334 Russia Roberts, Adam, 596 poetic responses to Holocaust in, Robot Chicken (television series), 531, 307–325 537, 539 post-Soviet era Holocaust narratives Rodríguez, Cruz, 515 and, 251–260 Index 835

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook in Grade’s “My Quarrel”, 149–160 (Shteyngart), 251 selfes at Auschwitz, 633 Rybakov, Anatoly Selvinsky, Ilya, 313 Arbat trilogy of, 268 Sender, Ruth Minsky, 117 Grossman compared to, 267–283 Sensory memory, 402, 771 Holocaust fction by, 269, 275–282 sexuality Aryan feminity and, 725–737 in post-Soviet narratives, 256, 262 S in women’s Holocaust accounts, Sachs, Nelly, 351–354 45–61 Sadowski, Greg, 494 sexual violence and abuse Saint Chéron, Michael de, 17 cartoon images of, 651–660 Salamandra (De-Nur), 618 children of Holocaust, accounts of, Salkeld, Cecil, 691 45–61 Samuel Beckett, A Critical Study in German culture, 651–660 (Kenner), 688 of women camp inmates, 660–665, Samuel Beckett and Testimony (Jones), 718 688 women’s testimony about, 52–54 “Sand” (Galich), 321 “Sexual Urges in the Colony” Sarah’s Key (de Rosnay), 788 (Hartmann), 654 Sarraute, Nathalie, 693 Shallcross, Bozena, 763 Satunovsky, Yan, 308–314 Shandler, Jeffrey, 70 Schanelec, Angela, 450 Shapiro, James, 168 Schapire, Rosa, 692 Shenker, Noah, 674, 678 “Scheiss Egal” (Millu), 663 Shildkret, Lucy, 68 Schindler’s List (flm), 426, 461, 594, Shivitti (De-Nur), 619–622 681 Shoah (documentary), 234, 418, 432, Schlink, Bernard, 429 461 Schneerson, Menachem Mendel (Rebbe), shoes, as memorial object, 761 20, 382 “Shoes on the Danube Bank” (Pauer and Schoenberg, Arnold, 80, 309 Togay installation), 761 Schulstein, Moses, 770 “A Shout of Joy” (“Ein Jubelruf!”), 387 science fction Shteyngart, Gary, 251, 260 Holocaust memory in, 287 Shtibel, Rachel, 47, 52–54, 56, 60 Science Fiction and Futurology (Lem), Siegal, Aranka, 117 301 Siegel, Norman, 335 screen memory Sierakowski, Dana, 483 in Holocaust flms, 462 Sierakowski, Sławomir, 476, 479 Scrolls of Auschwitz (Sonderkommando Silber, Godel, 679 diaries), 427, 431 Silberbauer, Karl, 115 second-generation Holocaust writers, 7 silence See Under: Love (Grossman), 91, 99–104 Soviet memory of Holocaust and, 253 Sefer Ha Zohar (Book of Splendor), 19 Wiesel’s discussion of, 20 Seidman, Naomi, 48, 743, 744 Simon, Joe, 542 Seiffert, Rachel, 132–134 Simplicissimus (magazine), 658 Seinfeld (television series) The Simpsons-NEVER AGAIN “Soup Nazi” episode, 531 (Palombo), 534 self-deliberation Sinclair, Peggy, 691 836 Index

Sinclair, William “Boss”, 691 poetry of Holocaust in era of, 307–325 Singer, I.B., 93 repression of dissidents in, 276 Sinkoff, Nancy, 83 Stalin cult in, 268 Sin rumbo (Aimless) (Sneh), 182–184 Third Reich compared to, 272 “Sistine Madonna” (Grossman), 324 Spadi, Milvia, 36 sitcoms and cartoons Spiegelman, Art Holocaust representations in, 529–543 animal studies and work of, 92 Slutsky, Boris, 308, 314–316, 323 Beckett’s infuence on, 700 “The Smeraldina’s Billet Doux” criticism of, 529 (Beckett), 691 early cartooning by, 532 Smith, Dinita, 333 fgurative dynamics in work of, 113 Smoke over Birkenau (Millu), 662 intergenerational trauma in work of, Sneh, Simja, 181–196 559, 576 Snow, Edgar, 766 material objects in work of, 764 Snyder, Timothy, 378 metaphor in, 118–120 social media on graphic narratives of Holocaust, photograpy at Auschwitz and, 494 633–645 post-9/11 cartoon book of, 433 Soderbergh, Steven, 287 Spinoza, Baruch, 694 Sokoloff, Naomi, 8, 91–104 Sprachgitter (Celan), 347 Solaris (Lem), 290–291 squatters’ rights movement (post-unifca- Solidarność [Solidarity] movement, 235 tion Berlin), 222 Solomons, Estella, 691 Stalin, Josef, 268, 272 Soloway, Jill, 562–564, 777 cartoon images of, 595 Solshenitsyn, Aleksandr, 199, 276 Hitler compared to, 273–275 Sommer, Robert, 662 Nazi depiction as Jewish, 378 Sonderkommando Stanley, Tarshia L., 130 diaries of, 427 The Star Diaries, 288–289 in flm, 420 Star of Ashes (De-Nur), 620, 623 in graphic narratives, 534 Staudte, Wolfgang, 441 Levi’s discussion of, 38 Steele, Timothy, 330 revolt in Auschwitz by, 429 Steiner, George, 111 Son of Saul (flm), 417–434 on postwar memoirs, 116 Sontag, Susan Stern, Helen, 711 on ethics of representation, 8 Stier, Oren Baruch, 669–684 Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 603 Stille, Alexander, 27 Sophocles, 432 “Stirrings Still” (Beckett), 699 Souls on Fire (Wiesel), 23 St. John Gogarty, Oliver, 691 South Park (television series), 531, 537 Stoler, Ann Laura, 654 Soviet Daughter (Alekseyeva), 256–258 Stoltze, Friedrich, 380 “Soviet ‘Equality’ or the Career of Aron Stone, Henry, 750 Shmeerzon”, 382 The Storm (Ehrenburg), 276 Soviet Union Strange and Unexpected Love (Heller), Holocaust fction from, 267–283 48–49 Jewish emigration from, 276 Stratton, Jon, 797 memory of Holocaust in context of, Strauss, Leo, 316 253 Streicher, Julius, 359 Nazi antisemitic poetry dissemination Styron, William, 603 in, 377–385 Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 2 Index 837

Sundquist, Eric, 29 Third Reich Superhero ephemera of, 359 post-war culture and emergence of, Soviet Union compared to, 272 594–600 “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 34, 35, Gentlemen” (Borowski), 294 761, 795, 797 Thomas, D.M., 787 A Survivor from Warsaw (Schoenberg), “Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit” 80 (Beckett), 690 survivors of Holocaust time in flm, 444, 459–473 memory and passage of, 31–33 photography by, 633–645 The Time of the Uprooted (Wiesel), 23 rage and revenge of, 743–756 Togay, Can, 773 third-generation descendants, 554–559 Tolstoy, Leo, 269–270, 281 videotestimony by, 669–684 To-Morrow magazine, 691 Survivors of Warsaw (Schoenberg), 309 “To My Child” (Sutzkever), 776 Sutzkever, Abraham, 764, 775 Torah on Tour, 225 Syme, Rachel, 779 Torberg, Friedrich, 203 Synagogue Council of America, 72 tourist experiences of Holocaust synechdoche photograpy at Auschwitz and, memorial objects and, 770 633–645 Synger, Paula, 718 The Town Beyond the Wall (Wiesel), 16 Syrkin, Marie, 81 “The Train” (Galich), 322 Szafran, Dora, 718 Train of Life (flm), 531 Szyk, Arthur, 73 translation studies Holocaust literature and, 511–525 “The Translator’s Task” (Benjamin), T 519 “Taiga” (Lipkin), 318 Transparent (television series), 562–564, Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Lem), 293–294, 777 298 “Trauma and the Unnamable” Tarantino, Quentin, 221, 536 (Garrison), 688 Tarkovsky, Andrei, 287 genetics and infuence of, 554 Tarr, Béla, 433 third-generation Holocaust literature Tettlebaum, Marianne, 308 and, 554 Texts for Nothing (Beckett), 693 Trauma: Explorations in Memory, and theatre Testimony (Caruth), 787 Holocaust productions in, 401–414 Trauma studies theology Holocaust and, 785–799 Wiesel and, 16–19 traumatic realism “There Are Jews in My House” in Celan’s poetry, 347–351 (Vapnyar), 252, 254–255 in flm, 459–473 third-generation narratives poetics of Holocaust and, 344 Anglophone fction and, 254 traumatic realism in, 459–473 as graphic novels, 575–588 Treaty of Berlin, 652 estranged affect in, 553–570 Trezise, Thomas, 161 fgurative dynamics in, 120–122 The Trial of God (As it Was Held on in post-Soviet era, 251–260 February 25, 1649 in Shamgorad) intergenerational trauma and, 217–227 (Wiesel), 18 reverse journeys in, 259 Trilling, Lionel, 334 838 Index

Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Venezia, Shlomo, 431 Will) (documentary), 479 Verhoeven, Paul, 788 “The Trouble with Zombies: Bare Verlaine, Paul, 350 Life, Muselmanner and Displaced Verstrynge, Raïssa, 461 People”;trouble (Stratton), 797 Videotestimony of survivors, 669–684 T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (Ricks), 336 Vieira de Lima, Jose, 517 T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary The VIolin (Shtibel), 52–54, 56 Form (Julius), 336 “A Vogn Shikh,” (“A Load of Shoes”) Tsvetaeva, Marina, 694 (Sutzkever), 775 Twilight (Wiesel), 21 Volkenrath, Elisabeth, 717 “Two Hopes Away from the Battle” von Galen, Clemens August (Bishop), (Amichai), 318 660 Tygodnik Powszechny magazine, 233 von Trotta, Margarethe, 445, 447 Tzofen: E.D.M.A., (De-Nur), 627 Vysotsky, Vladimir, 320

U W Ukraine Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 689 anticommunist ideology in, 378 Wajda, Andrzej, 233, 235 Nazi exploitation of antisemitism in, criticism of, 234 377 cultural memory of Holocaust and, Ulinich, Anya, 260 240–241 The Underland Chronicles (Collins), 123 “Dead Class” adaptation by, 294 Un di velt hut geshvign—And the World flm version of, 244–246 Remained Silent (Wiesel), 17, 743 moral transformation rhetoric of, 242, Undzer Vort (Parisian Yiddish daily), 188 247 United States Holocaust Memorial Wajsbort, Inka, 712 Museum (USHMM), 672, 763 The Walking Dead (television series), 797 Unnamable (Beckett), 690 “Walking With Living Feet” (Horn), Un prénom républicain [An 772 Administrative Name] (Burko- The Wall (Hersey), 67, 81–84 Falcman), 193 Walton, Douglas, 150, 153 urban spaces War and Peace (Tolstoy), 269–270, 281 in post-unifcation Berlin, 222 Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Urdiales-Shaw, Martin, 511–525 news coverage of, 68–70 Uris, Leon, 84 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 67–87 Urstein, Dennis, 751, 753 historical and literary legacy of, 84 USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Polish Catholics and, 233–247 Archive, 635, 678 Warsaw Zoo Useless Knowledge (Delbo), 402, 405 art in, 96 USHMM exhibit, 7 cultural transmutation of Holocaust Ussher, Arland, 692 in, 94 “The Utter Sadness of the Survivor” Grossman’s depiction of, 100 (Howe), 29 Watkins, Mary M., 152, 154 Watt (Beckett), 689, 693 We Are On Our Own (Katin), 505 V Weckel, Ulrike, 441 van der Kolk, Bessel, 152, 160 Weill, Kurt, 79, 453 Vapnyar, Lara, 252, 254–255 Weininger, Marilyn, 475–488 Velodrom d’Hiver, 695 Weissman, Gary, 30 Index 839

“Wenn Alle Menschen Juden Wären” (“If rage and revenge of survivors among, All People Were Jews”) (Nazi antise- 750 mitic ballad), 360 sexuality in Holocaust accounts by, Westermann, Edward B., 593–609 45–61 We Will Never Die pageant, 79 sexual violence and abuse in camps of, Wexler, Anthony C., 27–41 660–665 “The Whale and the Yid”, 380 women rescuers in, 138–140 “What Remains of Beckett: Evasion and Worcester, Kent, 577 History” (Katz), 688 “Words for the Day of Atonement” When the Shooting Stops (Rosenblum), (Hecht), 335 461 The Workmen’s Circle, 77 The White Hotel (Thomas), 787 “The World as Holocaust” (Lem) Who Will Carry the Word? (Delbo), 401 faux book reviews by, 299–301 Wielki Tydzień [Holy Week] “The World at War” (television series), (Andrzejewski), 233, 238–240 166 flm version of, 244–246 The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 Wiesel, Elie (Gordon), 688 as protest theologian, 16–19 World War Z (Brooks), 797 Berger’s discussion of, 15–23 “Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Nemes’ flms and infuence of, 431 Car” (Pagis), 344 on fgurative language and metaphor, 111 on postwar memoirs, 116, 496, 622 X on rage and revenge of survivors, X-Men comics series 743–756 Holocaust representations in, 593–609 Oprah Winfrey and, 788 post-Holocaust assessment of, 9 Rubinstein’s exchange wit, 18 Y traumatic realism of, 344 Yiddish literature Wieseltier, Leon, 41 Grade’s “My Quarrel”, 147–161 Wieviorka, Annette, 674, 676, 681 Holocaust’s impact on, 155 Wildenthal, Lora, 658 in Argentina, 181–196 Wilson, Edmund, 335 Spiegelman’s Maus as, 511–525 Winfrey, Oprah, 788 Stalin’s destruction of, 314 Winternähe (Funk), 217–227 Wiesel’s contributions to, 743 Wishengrad, Morton, 70, 72 Yolen, Jane, 120–122 Wisse, Ruth R., 154–155, 158 “Yosl Rakover Talks to God” (Kolitz), Wojtyła, Karol, 235 67, 75–77 Wolk, Marcin, 295–296 Yossel: April 19, 1943 (Kubert), 505, 533 Women Young, James E., 168, 477, 763, 772 Aryan feminity and, 725–737 youth Holocaust literature as Nazi perpetrators, 8–9 fgurative dynamics in, 111–125 camp experiences of, 707–720 German Jewish women, in contempo- rary Germany, 226 Z German Jewish women, in postwar Żabiński, Antonina, 91, 94 Germany, 224 agency of, 99 in animal studies, 94, 98 in flm, 97 840 Index

Żabiński, Jan, 91, 95 “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (flm), 91–93, Zamach (Assassination) video installation, 97–99, 439–440, 444–445, 449 481 “The Zoo Keeper’s Wife” (Plath), 99 Zanthier, Agnieszka von, 208 zoology Zeltser, Arkadi, 253 animal studies and, 94 Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 68 [Central Council of Jews in Zusak, Markus, 787 Germany], 220 Zwei Seiten der Erinnerung: Die Brüder Zionism Edgar und Manfred Hilsenrath American propaganda in support of, (Dittrich), 213 79–80 Żydokomuna (Judeo-Communism) Zionist propaganda flms, 478 Polish interwar denunciation of, 235 The Zookeeper’s Wife (Ackerman), 8, Zylberberg, Michael, 639 94–97 historical accuracy of, 93