Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

Alan L. Berger is the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and directs the Holocaust and Judaic Studies program and the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz at Florida Atlantic University. His previous books include Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press, and the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (coedited with David Patterson and Sarita Cargas). Gloria L. Cronin is Professor of English at Brigham Young University and has written and edited numerous books, including A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow.

"The intellectual importance of this work is unquestioned and the topic immensely important. The essays are gripping and revealing, opening up so much that has been hidden." - Daniel Walden, editor of Conversations with Chaim Potok"

• Acknowledgments Introduction Alan L. Berger, Gloria L. Cronin PART ONE: HOLOCAUST LITERATURE 1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding Alan L. Berger 2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World: Ida Fink's Hidden Witnesses Ellen S. Fine 3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn't He? Harry James Cargas 4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major European Writers Who Experienced the Holocaust Hugh Nissenson 5. Memory and Collective Identity: Narrative Strategies Against Forgetting in Contemporary Literary Responses to the Holocaust Gerhard Bach 6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl Marianne M. Friedrich 7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Land and Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld Gila Safran Naveh 8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within: The Power of Fiction in the Writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein Susan E. Nowak 9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World Thane Rosenbaum PART TWO: JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE 10. Africanity and the Collapse of American Culture in the Novels of Saul Bellow Gloria L. Cronin 11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow: From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker Sarah Blacher Cohen 12. Philip Roth and Jewish American Literature at the Millennium Bonnie Lyons 13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred Neshamas Evelyn Avery 14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist 15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/Through a Female Lens S. Lillian Kremer 16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes Miriyam Glazer 17. Restorying Jewish Mothers Janet Burstein Contributors Index