|    Login    |    Register

Filter Results

  • Large print only
  • Audiobooks only

Found 13 items


(Hardback)

By: Sara Nomberg-Przytyk

ISBN: 9781498577502
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This annotated edition of Holocaust survivor Sara Nomberg-Przytyk's postwar memoir follows her life as an investigative journalist during the emergence and deterioration of the communist state in Poland. Once a devoted communist herself, Nomberg-Przytyk recounts how antisemitism and government corruption shattered her illusions.


(Hardback)

By: Sophie Vallas

ISBN: 9781793626769
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This volume including eight essays and an interview offers new insight into Daniel Mendelsohn's first three memoirs (The Elusive Embrace, The Lost, and An Odyssey). The authors analyze how Mendelsohn's nonfiction brilliantly intertwines self-writing with reflections on ancient myths and their continued impact on self-reflection and representation.


(Hardback)

By: Gisella Perl

ISBN: 9781498583923
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Gisella Perls memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of womens extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous.


(Paperback)

By: Jennifer Rich

ISBN: 9781498586665
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Keepers of Memory examines the relationship between history, truth, and memory. Through interviews with children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, this book explores the human experience and how inherited memories might influence society in the future.


(Hardback)

By: Rachmil Bryks

ISBN: 9781793621023
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

May God Avenge Their Blood consists of three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks translated for the first time into English. With narrative flair and vivid detail, Bryks brilliantly captures interwar Jewish life in his hometown of Skarysko-Kamienna, Poland, the early days of World War II, and his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps.


(Paperback)

By: Rachmil Bryks

ISBN: 9781793621047
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

May God Avenge Their Blood consists of three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks translated for the first time into English. With narrative flair and vivid detail, Bryks brilliantly captures interwar Jewish life in his hometown of Skarysko-Kamienna, Poland, the early days of World War II, and his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps.


(Hardback)

By: Matt Reingold

ISBN: 9781666906837
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book explores Israeli political cartoons produced during the politically fraught and culturally divided period between December 2018 and June 2021. The author argues that the work of Israels political cartoonists presents visual commentary to critique the status quo and to envision alternative realities for their country.


(Hardback)

By: Dan Miron

ISBN: 9781498595131
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book argues that both Franz Kafkas personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.


(Hardback)

By: Hilene S. Flanzbaum

ISBN: 9781793612052
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.


(Hardback)

By: Monica Osborne

ISBN: 9781498564908
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book explores contemporary writers use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.


(Hardback)

By: Jacky Comforty

ISBN: 9781793632913
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers investigations, the stories counter official accounts and corroborate war crimes.


(Hardback)

By: Bettina Hofmann

ISBN: 9781793606068
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.


(Paperback)

By: Bettina Hofmann

ISBN: 9781793606082
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.