Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Shofar; an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,3 (1996) 88-106
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Deals mainly with literary representations of the Holocaust in eyewitness accounts and fiction. At least until Lanzmann's 1985 film "Shoah, " French literature tended to downplay the Jewish aspect of the Holocaust, writing not on the genocide, but on survival in the camps. Political camps, such as Buchenwald, were preferred. In the USA, scholars stress that the Holocaust was perpetrated primarily against the Jews and had a racist ground; only in recent years have they begun to universalize it. In the USA the "literary" and "interdisciplinary" approach is prevalent, whereas in France the philosophical-ethical approach predominates. In both countries, the "crisis of language after the Holocaust" is stressed - no language can represent the Holocaust experience. Discusses Elie Wiesel, who may be able to focus the cultural commentary on the Holocaust throughout the Western world.
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