Preempting the Holocaust
TitlePreempting the Holocaust
Author
Call number808.93358/0023
Object number03700
Place of publicationNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
PublisherYale University Press
Year of publication
1998
Physical description207p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0300073577
Description
Explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film and painting. Among the authors he examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman and Simon Wesenthal. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. He also offers a critical interpretation of Undzere Kinder, an important Yiddish film about Holocaust orphans made in Poland after the war