BLOOM'S PERIOD STUDIES

LITERATURE OF

THE HOLOCAUST

Edited and with an introduction by

Harold BloomSterling Professor of the Humanities

Yale University

CHELSEA HOUSEP U B L I S H E R S

A Haights Cross Communications^*""Company

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Contents

Editor's Note vii

Introduction 1Harold Bloom

The Holocaust in the Stories of Elie Wiesel 3Thomas A. Idinopulos

The Problematics of Holocaust Literature 21Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Tragedy and the Holocaust 49Robert Skloot

Holocaust Documentary Fiction: Novelist as Eyewitness 75James E. Young

Holocaust and Autobiography: Wiesel, Friedlander, Pisar 91Joseph Sungolowsky

The Holocaust ~ 109Deborah E. Lipstadt

Primo Levi and the Language of Witness 129MichaeLTager

The Utopian Space of a Nightmare: The Diary of Anne Frank 153Barbara Chiarello

The Literature of Auschwitz 171Lawrence L. hanger

Comedic Distance in Holocaust Literature 193Mark Cory

Public Memory and its Discontents 205Geoffrey H. Hartman

Two Holocaust Voices: Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman 223Lawrence L. Langer

The Holocaust and Literary Studies 231Jeffrey M. Peck

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Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung:The German-Jewish Family Novel beforeand after the Holocaust 237Ritchie Robertson

Memorizing Memory 257Amy Hungerford

Chronology 289

Contributors 297

Bibliography 301

Acknowledgments 309

Index 311