Sven-Erik Rose is professor of German and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought.

“Rose’s excellent new book is the first scholarly work to focus exclusively on literary writings from the ghetto corpus and to explore how they work as literature. . . . Rose devotes tremendous care to the texts he studies, situating them in broader currents of modern European literature and zeroing in on the qualities that make them astonishing and worthy of a much wider readership than they have had. . . . A boon to scholars and readers of all kinds, from experts in the field to those with little knowledge to teachers looking for ways of incorporating powerful, lesser-known Holocaust texts into their classes.”

• Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionI . Novel1 Novelistic Time, Historical Time, and theEnd of Omniscience: Zelman SkalovII . PoetryThree Poems from the Warsaw Ghetto, 19422 Shmuel Marvil’s Torn Words3 The Jewish Dead Confront Their German Murderers:Itzhak Katzenelson4 Yoysef Kirman’s Poetics of DurationIII . Short Prose: OneSelf-Writing in the Warsaw Ghetto5 Writing the Hungering Self in a Modernist Key:Leyb Goldin6 The Autobiography of a Number: Yehoshue PerleI V. Short Prose: TwoRevisiting Popular Literary Genres in the Lodzand Vilna Ghettos7 Sherlock Holmes in the Warsaw and VilnaGhettos: Gustawa Jarecka and Herman Kruk8 Oskar Rosenfeld’s Haunting Literary Dreamin the Lodz Ghetto9 Ghetto Gothic: Shaye Shpigl’s UmheymlekheTales from the Lodz GhettoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Sven-Erik Rose is professor of German and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought.

“Rose’s excellent new book is the first scholarly work to focus exclusively on literary writings from the ghetto corpus and to explore how they work as literature. . . . Rose devotes tremendous care to the texts he studies, situating them in broader currents of modern European literature and zeroing in on the qualities that make them astonishing and worthy of a much wider readership than they have had. . . . A boon to scholars and readers of all kinds, from experts in the field to those with little knowledge to teachers looking for ways of incorporating powerful, lesser-known Holocaust texts into their classes.”

• Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionI . Novel1 Novelistic Time, Historical Time, and theEnd of Omniscience: Zelman SkalovII . PoetryThree Poems from the Warsaw Ghetto, 19422 Shmuel Marvil’s Torn Words3 The Jewish Dead Confront Their German Murderers:Itzhak Katzenelson4 Yoysef Kirman’s Poetics of DurationIII . Short Prose: OneSelf-Writing in the Warsaw Ghetto5 Writing the Hungering Self in a Modernist Key:Leyb Goldin6 The Autobiography of a Number: Yehoshue PerleI V. Short Prose: TwoRevisiting Popular Literary Genres in the Lodzand Vilna Ghettos7 Sherlock Holmes in the Warsaw and VilnaGhettos: Gustawa Jarecka and Herman Kruk8 Oskar Rosenfeld’s Haunting Literary Dreamin the Lodz Ghetto9 Ghetto Gothic: Shaye Shpigl’s UmheymlekheTales from the Lodz GhettoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Sven-Erik Rose is professor of German and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought.

“Rose’s excellent new book is the first scholarly work to focus exclusively on literary writings from the ghetto corpus and to explore how they work as literature. . . . Rose devotes tremendous care to the texts he studies, situating them in broader currents of modern European literature and zeroing in on the qualities that make them astonishing and worthy of a much wider readership than they have had. . . . A boon to scholars and readers of all kinds, from experts in the field to those with little knowledge to teachers looking for ways of incorporating powerful, lesser-known Holocaust texts into their classes.”

• Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionI . Novel1 Novelistic Time, Historical Time, and theEnd of Omniscience: Zelman SkalovII . PoetryThree Poems from the Warsaw Ghetto, 19422 Shmuel Marvil’s Torn Words3 The Jewish Dead Confront Their German Murderers:Itzhak Katzenelson4 Yoysef Kirman’s Poetics of DurationIII . Short Prose: OneSelf-Writing in the Warsaw Ghetto5 Writing the Hungering Self in a Modernist Key:Leyb Goldin6 The Autobiography of a Number: Yehoshue PerleI V. Short Prose: TwoRevisiting Popular Literary Genres in the Lodzand Vilna Ghettos7 Sherlock Holmes in the Warsaw and VilnaGhettos: Gustawa Jarecka and Herman Kruk8 Oskar Rosenfeld’s Haunting Literary Dreamin the Lodz Ghetto9 Ghetto Gothic: Shaye Shpigl’s UmheymlekheTales from the Lodz GhettoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex