Preempting the Holocaust

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