Leona Toker is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission and Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors.

"There are very few scholars who could write such a book—who have such an immense and highly competent knowledge of both areas—the literature of the Nazi camps and the Gulag—and nothing of this scope and magnitude has yet been written."—Jeffrey Wallen, author of Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture"With great precision and pedagogic skill, Leona Toker demonstrates how literature can be read a testimony and how testimony must be read as literature. This will become a standard work for students of literature and history alike."—David G. Roskies, author (with Naomi Diamant) of Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide"This is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow."—Times Higher Education"For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad."—Benjamin Paloff, Antisemitism Studies"Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic."—Katherine R. Jolluck, The Russian Review"Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study."—Julie Draskoczy Zigoris, Slavic Review

• AcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex

Leona Toker is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission and Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors.

"There are very few scholars who could write such a book—who have such an immense and highly competent knowledge of both areas—the literature of the Nazi camps and the Gulag—and nothing of this scope and magnitude has yet been written."—Jeffrey Wallen, author of Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture"With great precision and pedagogic skill, Leona Toker demonstrates how literature can be read a testimony and how testimony must be read as literature. This will become a standard work for students of literature and history alike."—David G. Roskies, author (with Naomi Diamant) of Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide"This is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow."—Times Higher Education"For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad."—Benjamin Paloff, Antisemitism Studies"Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic."—Katherine R. Jolluck, The Russian Review"Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study."—Julie Draskoczy Zigoris, Slavic Review

• AcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex

Leona Toker is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission and Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors.

"There are very few scholars who could write such a book—who have such an immense and highly competent knowledge of both areas—the literature of the Nazi camps and the Gulag—and nothing of this scope and magnitude has yet been written."—Jeffrey Wallen, author of Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture"With great precision and pedagogic skill, Leona Toker demonstrates how literature can be read a testimony and how testimony must be read as literature. This will become a standard work for students of literature and history alike."—David G. Roskies, author (with Naomi Diamant) of Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide"This is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow."—Times Higher Education"For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad."—Benjamin Paloff, Antisemitism Studies"Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic."—Katherine R. Jolluck, The Russian Review"Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study."—Julie Draskoczy Zigoris, Slavic Review

• AcknowledgmentsInter-Contextuality: Introduction1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement 3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga 4. Forced Labor 5. The Drowned and the Reprieved 6. On the Way to Resistance7. Faith 8. Endgames 9. Survivor GuiltConcluding ReflectionsWorks CitedIndex