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634780
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Berger, Alan L.,1939-
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Children of Job : : American second-generation witnesses to the Holocaust /\ Alan L. Berger.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany, N.Y. :: State University of New York Press,, c1997.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
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ix, 241 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0791433579 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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: 9780791433577 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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: 0791433587 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 9780791433584 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-213) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Elie Wiesel -- Ch. 1. Introduction. The Second-Generation Witness: Inheriting the Holocaust. Particularism and Universalism. Children of Survivors and Children of Job. Theological Sequelae. Universal Questions. The Search for Tikkun -- Ch. 2. From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness. The American Second Generation: A Brief History. A New Generation of Jewish Writers and Filmmakers. Post-Auschwitz Covenant Theology. Elie Wiesel and the Additional Covenant. Irving Greenberg and the Voluntary Covenant. Emil L. Fackenheim and the Search for a Post-Aushwitz Tikkun Olam. Richard L. Rubenstein: "God after the Death of God" -- Ch. 3. Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism. Damaged Goods. Summer Long-a-Coming. Maus. Short Stories: A Biographical Note. Stories of an Imaginary Childhood and While the Messiah Tarries. Dancing at the Club Holocaust and Forms of Captivity and Escape. Elijah Visible -- Ch. 4. Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism. The Flood. White Lies. Dancing on Tisha B'Av and Winter Eyes -- Ch. 5. Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism. Kaddish. A Generation Apart. Breaking the Silence. Half-Sister, Everything's For You, and In Memory. Angst. The Docudramas: The Dr. John Haney Sessions and Open Secrets -- Ch. 6. Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism. As If It Were Yesterday. Weapons of The Spirit. So Many Miracles. Voices From The Attic -- Ch. 7. Whither The Future? Working through the Holocaust. Riders towards the Dawn. Children of Job and Covenantal Judaism.
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This book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. it is the first syste Matic analysis of a body of work that introduces a new generation of writers and filmmakers, as well as revealing how.
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The Surivors' legacy is Shaping-And being shaped by the second generation.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Judaism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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American literature-- Jewish authors-- History and criticism.
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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Children of Holocaust survivors-- United States-- Intellectual life.
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| LC Classification
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PS153.J4B468 1997
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