Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Jewish Studies Annual
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (1994) 127-144
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Space and time Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that the abolition of time into nonexistence in the Holocaust places the diary and its measure of time into a singular category. Diary entries from the period show that doom overtakes destiny - a past that has been erased forever, a present which has collapsed into an antitime, and a future that will never come. Yet the very writing of a diary is an attempt to recover time. The collapse and recovery of time that unfolds in the Holocaust diary reflects a collapse and recovery of humanity; the diarist creates a portal through which humanity can make an entry into time.
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