Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, indexA reference work containing bio-critical essays on over 300 memoirists, poets, novelists, dramatists, and a small number of religious and secular philosophers and theorists. American, Canadian, Latin American, British, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Australian, Algerian, and Tunisian writers are represented. The introduction (pp. xxi-xlvii) presents an overview of critical and theoretical issues which arise in Holocaust literature. Eight appendices (pp. 1383-1444) include information on ghettos, camps, historic figures and events, literary themes and genres of the works discussed, the authors' birthplaces and language of composition. |
Contents
List of Articles vii | 1105 |
Maps xvii | 1120 |
Preface xix | 1136 |
Entries A to Z 1 | 1367 |
Author Birthplace and Language of Composition | 1383 |
Language of Composition | 1389 |
Literary Themes | 1397 |
Ghettos Noted in the Literature | 1415 |
Labor Transit Concentration and Extermination Camps | 1423 |
Historic Events | 1435 |
Glossary | 1445 |
Acknowledgements | 1451 |
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