Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Literature & Theology
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (1992) 47-56
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Holocaust survivors
Kurzfassung:
Examines two approaches taken by survivor-writers in responding to the conflicting demands of speech and silence, and belief and unbelief, after the Holocaust. The first approach, illustrated by the Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski, strives to portray the Holocaust in its "naked reality, " but this form puts too great a strain on both language and writer, resulting in the silence of both (Borowski committed suicide in 1951). The second consists of a subverted version of the Jewish lamentation tradition (e.g. Elie Wiesel's works), in which loss of faith rather than traditional affirmation of faith is often emphasized. Discusses continuity and discontinuity in the religious response to the Holocaust: for the Orthodox, the existing religious language is sufficient; for others (e.g. Richard Rubenstein), the form of traditional religious language is retained but the content is rejected. A third alternative, combining continuity and discontinuity, is expressed in different forms by Berkovits, Fackenheim, Greenberg, and Wiesel.
DOI:
10.1093/litthe/6.1.47
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