Should the works of Israeli Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon be considered Holocaust literature? This is one of the many questions that Alan Mintz explores in his comprehensive study of Agnon's posthumously
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern li
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage o
Among the millions of Jews who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century, there were the few for whom Hebrew culture was an important ideal. Reaching a critical mass around World War I, the
Devotes a chapter each to selected catastrophic events and the literary response to them, such as the destruction of the First Temple in 587 B.C.E. and the resulting biblical literature, and the mass
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage o
Facing the Glass Booth, being published in English for the first time, is a detailed account of Eichmann’s trial by the poet and journalist Haim Gouri, who was assigned to cover the event by the Israe
