Preempting the Holocaust
TitoloPreempting the Holocaust
Autore
Call number808.93358/0023
Numero oggetto03700
Luogo di pubblicazioneNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
EditoreYale University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
1998
Paginazione207p.
MaterialeBook
ISBN0300073577
Descrizione
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