"And Here [Their] Troubles Began": The Legacy of the Holocaust in the Writing of Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth.

From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: LEHMANN, SOPHIA | Copyright information

Theological uses to which the Holocaust is put by the American Jewish community are very diverse. The Holocaust begins to stand in the place of the Bible as the text to be interpreted. The memory of the Holocaust contrasts with and threatens, by implication, the freedom of America and successful assimilation in the latter part of the twentieth century. A possible future way for post-Holocaust representation is literature that does not any longer address the Holocaust directly but still stays ...

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