Writing the Holocaust: identity, testimony, representation

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'Writing the Holocaust' examines the history of Holocaust testimony, from the chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to survivors writing as part of collective memory. This book shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably.

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Title Statements

Full title :Writing the Holocaust : identity, testimony, representation / Zoë Vania Waxman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

Notes

Originally published: 2006.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 227 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199541546, 019954154X, 0199206384, 9780199206384
oclc:ocn227908379
LC Classification:D804.348
Dewey Decimal:940.53/18072

Wriitng as resistance? Bearing witness in the Warsaw ghetto -- Writing to survive : the testimony of the concentration camps -- Writing to remember : the role of the survivor -- Writing ignored : reading women's Holocaust testimonies -- Writing the ineffable : the representation of testomony.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Geschichtsschreibung Historiography Holocaust survivors -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Histor… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in liter… Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Historiographie Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Récits personn… Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérat… Judenvernichtung Personal narratives Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Biographi…