Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
New Literary History
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,4 (1998) 625-651
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the theater
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Hebrew literature
Abstract:
Many historical and fictional works on the Holocaust, including those by Jews, are prone to "backshadowing" - a tendency to conceive the annihilation of European Jewry as inevitable, to blame the Jews of Europe for not foreseeing it, and to largely ignore the Jews of prewar Europe as individuals and members of communities of great variety and complexity. German and Austrian non-Jewish authors tend to standardize their Jewish characters, thereby perpetuating stereotypes (even if they are positive). Memoirs of Holocaust survivors serve as a corrective to other works on the Holocaust, because they depict the great diversity in Europe's prewar Jewish life, without stereotyping.
Note:
On the Shoah in European and Israeli literature and theater.
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