Children of Job

Alan L. Berger is Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, also published by SUNY Press; editor of Judaism in the Modern World; and coeditor of Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust.

• Contents Foreword by Elie WieselAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction The Second-Generation Witness: Inheriting the HolocaustParticularism and UniversalismChildren of Survivors and Children of JobTheological SequelaeUniversal QuestionsThe Search for TikkunChapter 2 From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness The American Second Generation: A Brief HistoryA New Generation of Jewish Writers and FilmmakersPost-Auschwitz Covenant TheologyElie Wiesel and the Additional CovenantIrving Greenberg and the Voluntary CovenantM Emil L. Fackenheim and the Search for a Post-Aushwitz Tikkun OlamRichard L. Rubenstein: "God after the Death of God"Chapter 3 Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism Damaged GoodsSummer Long-a-ComingMausShort Stories: A Biographical NoteStories of an Imaginary Childhood and While The Messiah TarriesDancing at the Club Holocaust and Forms of Captivity and EscapeElijah VisibleConclusionChapter 4 Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism The FloodWhite LiesDancing on Tisha B'Av and Winter EyesConclusionChapter 5 Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism KaddishA Generation ApartBreaking the SilenceHalf-Sister, Everything's For You, and In MemoryAngstThe Docudramas: The Dr. John Haney Sessions and Open SecretsConclusionChapter 6 Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism As If It Were YesterdayWeapons Of The SpiritSo Many MiraclesVoices From The AtticConclusionChapter 7 Whither The Future? Working through the HolocaustRiders towards the DawnChildren of Job and Covenantal JudaismNotes Index

"It is the most comprehensive analysis of material on the second generation. Alan Berger shows an excellent, comprehensive knowledge of American literary work on the subject as well as the mainstream major critical analysis of the material."— Yaffa Eliach, author/creator of the Tower of Life at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum"It is an original approach to a topic which has not been sufficiently explored until now." — Elie Wiesel