scholarly journals Holocaust Testimony Elements in Elie Wiesel’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Author(s):  
Sh. Mukhamedova
Keyword(s):  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Elie Wiesel ◽  
The Holocaust

The article considers Elie Wiesel and his autobiography as a major contribution to the Holocaust literature through his testimonies that found reflection in the author’s novels. The trilogy Night and other works created by the author are about a world that seems unreal and insane that often indeed they are read like a nightmare. Wiesel is among the first to demonstrate the atrocities of the Nazi regime as a witness and the writer at the same time as his creative works based on his experience at the death camps. Therefore, the holistic depiction of the author’s life will serve to shape the Holocaust universe.

scholarly journals Reflexiones sobre el holocausto a partir de literatura

STUDIUM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Cociña Cholaky
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Know How ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Universe

A partir del examen de obras sobre el holocausto se reflexiona sobre su singularidad, sus implicaciones y consecuencias, reafirmando la necesidad de instaurar una ética contra el olvido. Ciertos textos logran testimoniar lo inconcebible, de ahí que se recurra a estos para aprehender las dimensiones de lo acontecido. La literatura tiene una función esencial en la tarea de la memoria pues, mediante la narración de historias, posibilita conocer cómo se organizó el régimen nazi, cuáles fueron las bases en que se asentó, cómo operó en sus ejecutores y cómo incidió en quienes lo padecieron; asimismo permite debatir acerca de la modernidad, el sufrimiento, la indiferencia y el mal. Este artículo es una invitación a confrontar críticamente el pasado reciente a partir de novelas que recogen testimonios que dan cuenta del universo de los campos de concentración y exterminio nazi. Palabras clave: holocausto, literatura, nazismo, memoria, mal. Abstract From the examination of works on the holocaust, it reflects on its uniqueness, its implications and consequences, reaffirming the need to establish an ethic against forgetting. Certain texts manage to bear witness to the inconceivable, which is why they are repeated to apprehend the dimensions of what happened. Literature has an essential function in the task of memory, because through the narration of stories, it allows to know how it was organized the Nazi regime, were the bases on which it was established, how they operated on its executors and how it affected those who suffer, they can allow to debate about of Modernity, suffering, indifference and Evil. This paper is an invitation to critically confront the recent past from novels that collect testimonies that account for the universe of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Key words: holocaust, literature, nazism, memory, evil.

scholarly journals Portrayal Of Holocaust Andalienation In The Light Of Trauma In Elie Wiesel’s Trilogynight, Day, Dawn

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
ANCY THRESIA N K
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Elie Wiesel ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Bureaucratic State

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."All the books of Elie Wiesel deal with his struggle to handle the holocaust and to find God after the horror. As a survivor of holocaust Wiesel describes his own experiences, but words are not enough to explain his struggles. His books give us a clear picture of concentration camps and brutality of alienation created by Nazis.He is an American- Romanian Jewish writer who always raised his voice for the voiceless Jews.Night is the first book in the trilogy- Night, Dawn and Day which reflects Wiesel’s state of mind during and after holocaust.

Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michael Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Accountability ◽  
Union College

This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the personal history of Friedlander and his wife Evelyn, who was a co-creator of the book, his colleagues from Hebrew Union College, and the illustrator, Jacob Landau. It explores the work’s connection to the expansive, humanistic development of progressive Judaism in the United States, Britain and continental Europe. It also underscores Friedlander’s study of Leo Baeck as a means to understand the importance of mutual accountability, not only between Jews, but in Jews’ engagement with the wider world.

Antisemitic or Bordering on Antisemitic? Grey Areas in Romanian Fake News Discourses in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Anca-Simina Martin
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Elie Wiesel ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Us ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Jews as a collective have long served as scapegoats for epidemics and pandemics, such as the Bubonic Plague and, according to some scholars, the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic. This practice reemerged in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when more and more fake news outlets in the US and Europe started publishing articles on a perceived linkage between Jewish communities and the novel coronavirus. What this article aims to achieve is to facilitate a dialogue between the observations on the phenomenon made by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the latest related EU reports, with a view to charting its beginnings in Romania in relation to other European countries and in an attempt to see whether Romania, like France and Germany, has witnessed the emergence of “grey area” discourses which are not fully covered by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.

America and the Holocaust

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-189
Author(s):  
William vanden Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Elie Wiesel ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
American Policy

This chapter presents Ambassador vanden Heuvel's views on American immigration policies towards Jews before and during WWII. In response to a documentary by the historian David Wyman criticizing Roosevelt and his administration, vanden Heuvel began his own research to set the record straight. He demonstrates that American policy toward refugees was more generous than any other country at the time and that efforts by FDR to encourage Congress to revise refugee quotas would have resulted in a reduction of those quotas by an isolationist Congress. He refutes the idea that the exact details of the death camps were widely known at the time and thus could have prompted a military plan to save the Jews. He also recalls his intervention with President Jimmy Carter to challenge such claims by Elie Wiesel and others.

‘Anti-Fascist Literature’ as Holocaust Literature?

2019 ◽  
pp. 409-426
Author(s):  
Richard S. Esbenshade
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Second World

THE long-accepted, fairly universal idea of a ‘great silence’ on the Holocaust in general, and in Hungary in particular, extending from the end of the Second World War until the Eichmann trial, has recently been challenged.1 The return or emergence from hiding of survivors quickly led to an explosion of Holocaust literature. Before the communist takeover, in the midst of difficult material and turbulent political conditions, Jenő Lévai and others published collections of documents;...

scholarly journals Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Us

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” has been notorious since its first publication in 1948, but rarely, if ever, has it been read in light of its immediate historical context. This essay draws on literature, philosophy, and anthropology from the period to argue that Jackson’s story, which scholars have traditionally read through the lens of gender studies, invokes the themes of Holocaust literature. To support this argument, the essay explores imaginative Holocaust literature from the period by David Rousset, whose Holocaust memoir The Other Kingdom appeared in English translation in 1946, anthropological discourse from the period on scapegoating and European anti-Semitism, and critical discourse on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism from the period by Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno. The analysis finds that, in representing the phenomena of scapegoating and death selection in a small town in the US, Jackson’s story belongs to an abstract discourse on Holocaust-related themes and topics that was actively produced at midcentury, as evidenced partly by Rousset’s influential memoir. A master of the horror genre, Jackson could have drawn on her own experience of anti-Semitism, along with her known interest in the study of folklore, to contribute this chilling representation of the personal experience of death selection to a discourse on Holocaust-related themes. As this article shows, the abstract discourse Jackson’s story joined is marked by skepticism about or disinterest in ethnic difference and anthropological concepts. Due to the fact that this article features comparative analysis of Holocaust literature, a sub-topic is the debate among scholars concerning the ethics of literary representation of the Shoah and of analysis of Holocaust memoir. Jackson’s story and its context invoke perennially important questions about identity and representation in discourse about the Shoah and anti-Semitism.

scholarly journals Kilka słów na marginesie Dziennika z getta Miriam Korber-Bercovici

2021 ◽  
pp. 405-424
Author(s):  
Monika Borzęcka
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
World War ◽  
Elie Wiesel ◽  
The Holocaust

A Few Words on the Margin of the Diary Written in the Djurin Ghetto by Miriam Korber-Bercovici The purpose of the article is to present fragments of the diary of Miriam Korber-Bercovici, a young Jewish woman deported with her whole family from Southern Bukovina to the Transnistria Governorate under the Antonescu regime. The excerpts translated from the original Romanian into Polish mainly concern the author’s experiences of deportation and everyday life in the Djurin ghetto. They were selected in order to acquaint Polish readers with the situation of the Jews of Bukovina and Bessarabia displaced to the Transnistria Governorate during World War II. The diary was first published in Romania in 1995 as Jurnal de ghetou. The presented translation is based on the second edition of the diary published in 2017 by Curtea Veche Publishing House and Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania.

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