Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Twentieth Century Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,1 (1994) 72-91
Keywords:
Asch, Sholem,
;
Schwarz-Bart, André,
;
Martyrdom Judaism
Abstract:
In the works of Sholem Asch (1880-1957) and André Schwarz-Bart (b. 1928) the tragic martyrological landscape of Jewish history is explored primarily through the concept of "Kiddush Hashem" (the sanctification of God's name). The dialectic of the sanctification of life and death is a fundamental principle of the Jewish religious and secular interpretation of the meaning of history, which manifests itself in times of historical crises with countless ideological variations. Examines Sholem's novel "Kiddush Hashem" (1919) about a Jewish family's tribulations during the pogroms in the Ukraine in 1648, and Schwarz-Bart's "Le dernier des justes" (1959) about the last of a dynasty of just men who is martyred in the Holocaust.
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