Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Holocaust Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,1 (1996) 49-60
Keywords:
Appelfeld, Aharon.
;
Oz, Amos,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Hebrew literature History and criticism
Abstract:
One of the dangers in writing about the Holocaust is "domestication" of the horrors, rendering them more familiar and thus tolerable. The two Israeli writers, Appelfeld (a survivor of the Holocaust) and Oz, chose their own way to represent the Holocaust in their novels "Badenheim 1939" and "Touch the Water, Touch the Wind". They allude to the Final Solution only by inference, relying on the reader's knowledge of Holocaust history. Appelfeld focuses on the ominous atmosphere reigning in a small Jewish resort town in Austria, Badenheim, whose Jewish inhabitants live in anticipation of the horrors. Oz focuses on the stories of several survivors, mostly in postwar Poland and Israel. The Holocaust novels by Appelfeld and Oz render an emotional dimension to the Final Solution, reevaluating the data on the mass murders in terms of the individual.
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