Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is author of Beyond Marginality:Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust,Style andStructure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in RussianLiterature After the October Revolution, and BreakingCrystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz.

"Efraim Sicher's The Holocaust Novel is a most comprehensive, intelligent, and empathetic study of the literature representing the murder of the six million. As such it is also a history of the cultural reception of the Holocaust over six decades and innumerable national literary traditions. Readable and accessible, it is also an extremely useful handbook of "Holocaust" culture." -- Sander L. Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford University

• 1. About the Holocaust Novel  2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..."  3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable  4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts  5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness  6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"

Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is author of Beyond Marginality:Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust,Style andStructure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in RussianLiterature After the October Revolution, and BreakingCrystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz.

"Efraim Sicher's The Holocaust Novel is a most comprehensive, intelligent, and empathetic study of the literature representing the murder of the six million. As such it is also a history of the cultural reception of the Holocaust over six decades and innumerable national literary traditions. Readable and accessible, it is also an extremely useful handbook of "Holocaust" culture." -- Sander L. Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford University

• 1. About the Holocaust Novel  2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..."  3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable  4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts  5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness  6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"