Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Judaistische Forschung; Beiheft zu "Judaica"
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (1996) 17-36
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Hebrew literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Discusses how Israeli society copes with the problem of the Holocaust, through analysis of three novels written between 1969-87: Yoram Kaniuk's "Adam ben kelev", David Grossman's "Ayen erekh: Ahavah", and Nathan Shaham's "Revi'iyat Rosendorf". Deals with "repression" and "accomplishment of fate" which find expression in these books, and which characterize Israeli literature on the Holocaust. States that in the first years after the Holocaust silence was the common reaction of survivors, who wanted to return to normal life as quickly as possible, and of the Yishuv, which did not go through the Holocaust. Shows that only by a painful developing awareness of the Holocaust is there a possibility for relative normalization.
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