Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture

Victoria Aarons is O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, USA. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan Berger) (2017), The New Jewish American Literary Studies (2019), and Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (2019).Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA.  Her publications include British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (1998). She co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). Her most recent book is Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2017).

“Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner expertly demonstrate in their comprehensive and thought-provoking Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, this is even truer when the event is the Holocaust, the texts are literary and cultural, and those reassembling them today are already the third generation born since the event. … Along with the accolades for this remarkable handbook, one can only hope that such a volume will be written in the not-too-distant future.” (Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, April 29, 2022)“The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to future Holocaust research. … This collection is a fine example of interdisciplinarity that will support learning and reference for researchers of all interests and abilities. The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture will prove itself to be a vital asset to any learner, expressing the sheer potentiality of the field to resonate with an abundance of cultural discussions.” (Kieran J. H. Shackleton, Textual Practice, January 13, 2021)

• 1. Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century, Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner.- 2. Elie Wiesel’s Quarrel with God, Alan L. Berger.- 3. Primo Levi’s Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved, Anthony C. Wexler.- 4. What We Learn, At Last: Recounting Sexuality in Women’s Deferred Autobiographies and Testimonies, Sara R. Horowitz.- 5. Ghetto in Flames: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Early Postwar Jewish Fiction, Avinoam Patt.- 6. The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, the Holocaust, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and See Under: Love, Naomi Sokoloff.- 7. When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature, Joanna Krongold.- 8. Jewish Boys on the Run: The Revision of Boyhood in Holocaust Fiction and Film, Phyllis Lassner.- 9. “I sometimes thought I was listening to myself”: Identity-Deliberation after the Holocaust in Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrelwith Hersh Rasseyner”, Megan V. Reynolds.- 10. “The Relatedness of the Unrelatable”: The Holocaust as Trope in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood, Paule Lévy.- 11. The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf, Alan Astro.- 12. Edgar Hilsenrath’s Novels: Der Nazi & der Friseur and Berlin… Endstation, Till Kinzel.- 13. Transit and Transfer: Between Germany and Israel in the Granddaughters’ Generation, Ashley Passmore.-14. Holocaust Memories and Polish Catholic Identity: Cultural Transmutations of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Rachel F. Brenner.- 15. Post-Soviet Migrant Memory of the Holocaust, Karolina Krasuska.- 16. Vasily Grossman and Anatoly Rybakov: Soviet Sources of Historical Memory of the Holocaust, Alexis Pogorelskin.-17. Refractions of Holocaust Memory in Stanisław Lem’s Science Fiction, Richard Middleton-Kaplan.- 18. Poetry of Witness andPoetry of Commentary: Responses to the Holocaust in Russian Verse, Marat Grinberg.- 19. “At Last to a Condition of Dignity”: Anthony Hecht’s Holocaust Poetry, David Caplan.- 20. Wound Marks in the Air and the Shadows Within: A Poetic Examination of Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, and Nelly Sachs, Shellie McCullough.- 21. The Dark Side of Holocaust Era Poetry: Nazi Poetry Promoting Antisemitism and Genocide, Cary Nelson.- 22. Holocaust Drama Imagined and Re-Imagined: The Case of Charlotte Delbo’s Who Will Carry the Word?, Holli Levitsky.- 23. Wresting Memory as We Wrestle with Holocaust Representation: Reading László Neme’s Son of Saul, Gila Safran Naveh.- 24. Troubled Aesthetics: Jewish Bodies in Post-Holocaust Film, Jessica Lang.- 25. Screen Memories: Trauma, Repetition, and Survival in Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, Sandor Goodhart.- 26. Haunted Dreams: The Legacy of the Holocaust in And Europe Will Be Stunned, Melissa Weininger.- 27. “Master Race”: Graphic Storytelling in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, Victoria Aarons.- 28. The Challenges of Translating Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Martín Urdiales-Shaw.- 29. We Are a Long Way Past Maus: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Representations in Graphic Comics and Sitcom Cartoons, Jeffrey Scott Demsky.- 30. Claustrophobic in the Gaps of Others: Affective Investments from the Queer Margins, Golan Moskowitz.- 31. Recrafting the Past: Graphic Novels, the Third Generation and Twenty-First Century Representations of the Holocaust, Claire Gorrara.- 32. X-Men at Auschwitz? Superheroes, Nazis, and the Holocaust, Edward B. Westermann.- 33. An Iconic Image through the Lens of Ka-tzetnik: The Murder of the Mother and the Essence of Auschwitz, David Patterson.- 34. Photographing Survival: Survivor Photographs of, and at, Auschwitz, Tim Cole.- 35. A Reconsideration ofSexual Violence in German Colonial and Nazi Ideology and its Representation in Holocaust Texts, Elizabeth R. Baer.- 36. The Place of Holocaust Survivor Videotestimony: Navigating the Landmarks of First-Person Audio-Visual Representation, Oren Baruch Stier.- 37. Beckett’s Holocaust, Ira Nadel.- 38. The Auschwitz Women’s Camp: An Overview and Reconsideration, Sarah Cushman.- 39. Aryan Feminity: Identity in the Third Reich, Wendy Adele-Marie.- 40. Reconsidering Jewish Rage after the Holocaust, Margarete Myers Feinstein.- 41. Impossible Holocaust Metaphors: Shoes, Matter, Memory, Sharon B. Oster.- 42. From Holocaust Studies to Trauma Studies and Back Again, Hilene Flanzbaum.