Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide

Index

Index Note: Page numbers in italics refer to the illustrations. Wherever possible, names of persons are followed by their birth and death dates in parentheses. 1943 (year), 35, 39–41, 69–73; battle of Stalingrad, 22, 36; birth of Holocaust literature, 29–34, 46–47, 201–5; in Rochman, 234; in Semprún, 147 1968 (year), 268–69, 275–76 “4580” (Perle), 66 Adam Resurrected, 268–69 Adler, Miklós (1909–1965), 79, 187, 221 Adler, Stanisław (?–1946), 70 Agnon [Czaczkes], Shmuel Yosef (1888–1970), 39–41, 229; “The Lady and the Peddler,” 39; “The Sign,” 130 Akedah and anti-Akedah, 76–77, 122 Aktionen, 128, 211, 214, 287. See also deportations and deportees Al Domi proclamation, 38 alienation, 126, 139–43 allegory, 39–41, 117, 140, 168–70, 278 Almagor, Gila (b. 1939), 170–71 Alterman, Natan (1910–1970), 109, 125, 128 Altman, Tosia (1918–1943), 38, 63 altruism, 226 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, 308–9 Améry, Jean [Hans Mayer] (1912–1978), 261–62 Am I a Murderer?, 213–14 Amichai, Yehuda [Ludwig Pfeuffer] (1924–2000), 130, 250–51 Anielewicz, Mordecai (1919–1943), 61–62, 93 Antelme, Robert (1917–1990), 114–16, 224–25 anthology (genre) and anthologies, 38, 80, 100–101; Children’s Drawings and Poems, Terezín, 1942–1944, 8, 242–44; Ehad me’ir ushnayim mimishpaha, 110; Holocaust poetry, 10; Kidesh hashem (Niger), 100; Kinder-martirologye, 110; To Live with Honor and Die with Honor, 208–9; The Root and the Bough, 83; Suffering and Heroism in the Jewish Past in Light of the Present, 62; Undzere farpaynikte kinstler, 100; We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust, 231–32; Zotchłani, 85. See also Passover Service; We Were in Auschwitz; yizkor books antisemitism, 89, 197, 245, 262, 269–70. See also pogroms; Poland; racism Appelfeld, Aharon (b. 1932), 126, 140–43, 156; Badenheim 1939, 142, 186, 278–79; “Bertha,” 140–41 archetype. See Akedah and anti-Akedah; covenantal history and language; crucifixion; Exodus (biblical); khurbn; Kiddush Hashem (archetype) Arendt, Hannah (1900–1975), 32–33, 129, 251–53. See also Eichmann, Adolf/ Eichmann trial Arrival and Departure, 29 artists and writers, 46–49, 92, 139–40. See also chroniclers of the Holocaust; diaries and diarists; Holocaust literature ; individual names; memorial literature; women in the Holocaust “The Ascension,” 87 atrocities, 5, 266, 285, 291. See also Aktionen; deportations and deportees Auerbach, Rachel (1903–1976), 12, 65–68, 93, 109, 128–29 Augustynek, Tadeusz, 159 [ 344 ] Index Auschwitz and After, 188, 257–58 Auschwitz/Auschwitz-Birkenau, 73–74, 78–81, 88, 222–23, 228; as metaphor, 4–5; uprising, 163, 215, 265. See also Auschwitz and After; Scrolls of Auschwitz; Survival in Auschwitz; We Were in Auschwitz autobiography and memoirs, 148–49, 281, 304–5, 312. See also diaries and diarists Babi Yar, 262–63 Babi Yar (killing field), 36, 285 Badenheim 1939, 142, 186, 278–79 Baeck, Leo (1873–1956), 129, 240 Bak, Samuel (b. 1933), 148–49, 149, 186 “Ballad of the Doomed Jews of Europe,” 30 “banality of evil,” 251–53, 288–89 Bartov, Hanoch (b. 1926), 256–57 Basok, Moshe (1907–1966), 103 Bassani, Giorgio (1916–2000), 248–49 Battlefields and Playgrounds, 293–95 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, 26, 291–92 Becker, Jurek (1937–1997), 134–36, 138, 270–72 Begley, Louis [Ludwik Begleite] (b. 1933), 298–99 Belechow, Ukraine, 162 Bellow, Saul (1915–2005), 272–73 Benjamin, Walter (1895–1940), 32 Benn (b. Rabinowicz), Bencjon (1905–1989), 183 Berenbaum, Michael (b. 1945), 175–76 Bergson, Peter [Hillel Kook] (1915–2001)/ Bergson Boys, 30 Berman, Adolf (1906–1978), 209 Berman, Jakub (1901–1984), 90 Bernshteyn, Mira, 59, 217 “Bertha,” 140–41 Bettelheim, Bruno (1903–1990), 31, 168 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873–1934), 27–28, 199 Białystok, Poland, 161, 299–300 bildungsroman, 3, 137–38, 174, 241, 246–47, 283; The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, 26, 291–92; Bread for the Departed, 8, 136–38, 275–76; The Lost, 162, 312–13 Bitburg affair, 12, 158 Black Friday, 94, 234 The Black Seasons, 6, 8, 177–78, 307–8 “A Bliml” (“Flower”), 59–60, 150 Blood from the Sky, 133, 133–34, 185, 247–48 Boder, David P. (1886–1961), 83 book covers, 34, 181–88 The Book of Alfred Kantor, 131–32, 217–18 Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986), 7, 39–41, 277 Borowski, Tadeusz (1922–1951), 2, 78, 81–82, 84; “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” 87–90; This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, 232–33...