Rosen, Alan, Editor. Literature of the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
This work is broken down into “wartime victim-writing” follow by a Part II of Postwar responses broken out by literary responses from different cultures/countries. This is particularly helpful where language barriers exist – as they do for many people when studying the Literature of the Holocaust. Alan Rosen stresses the importance of literature as focused on the individual – and that it is via the individual that empathy comes to the fore. Rosen in the organizing and selection of content, shows that the line between history and literature is not so sharply drawn. HE thinks it important therefore to start his work with the war time writing of the victims themselves.
• The Holocaust and Italian literature, German Literature & the Holocaust
• Hebrew literature of the Holocaust, The Holocaust and postwar Yiddish literature
• The Holocaust an Russian literature, The Holocaust in English-language literatures
• Polish literature on the Holocaust, Hungarian Holocaust literature
• French literature and the Holocaust.
The third part examines “Other approaches: namely: Oral memoir and the Shoah, Songs of the Holocaust, Sephardic literary responses to the Holocaust. Anthologizing the Holocaust, and finally the Historian’s anvil, the novelists’ crucible…
