Alexander, Edward. The Resonance of Dust. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979.
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- Hauptman, Robert. “World Literature Today.” World Literature Today, vol. 55, no. 1, 1981, pp. 183–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40135951.
In "The Incredibility of the Holocaust" Alexander attempts to show that the Jews were incapable of facing their imminent destruction because of something inherent in their history and sensibility. He therefore summarizes stories, historical accounts and a novel to prove that Jews deny empirical reality. The proposition is convincingly presented - through the bare plots, however, rather than through a constructed argument. In an essay on I. B Singer, Alexander touches glancingly on the novelist's works while reducing the recapitulation. The result is a precise and effective piece on the destruction and resurrection of the Jews…
