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Children of Job

American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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An original contribution to Holocaust studies that demonstrates the theological and psychosocial issues emerging in novels and films by sons and daughters of survivors.Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. It is the first systematic analysis of a body of work that introduces a new generation of Jewish writers and filmmakers, as well as revealing how the survivors' legacy is shaping—and being shaped by—the second generation.Carefully studying the work of these contemporary children of Job, Berger demonstrates how the offspring, like the survivors themselves, represent a variety of orientations to Judaism, have significant theological differences, and share the legacy of the Shoah. Berger clearly shows that members of the second generation participate fully in both the American and Jewish dimensions of their identity and articulates distinctive second-generation theological and psychosocial themes.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-05-02
Mått149 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Antal sidor256
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791433584

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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