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A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Limits
Eventually, the novel grows to encompass a network of victims and perpetrators: Polish aristocrats, other prisoners in the ...
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30 years later, the author of ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ has a new young adult Holocaust novel
Books for younger readers tend to be redemptive ... Magilow cautioned that Holocaust fiction should not be presented uncritically, but should be taught “in the context of the uncomfortable ...
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A Holocaust novel zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager
“The Rest Is Memory” evokes the work of W.G. Sebald, a German writer who similarly merged fact, fiction and photography in his treatment of Holocaust themes. Tuck’s descriptions of Auschwitz ...
These books circulated at Brandeis for decades. A trove of Holocaust history was hidden in the pages.
As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as "material survivors, as witnesses." ...
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The Holocaust is exaggerated in pop culture. That makes it hard for educators like me to teach the truth.
This is partly due to Holocaust education’s dependence on pop culture, with its liberal use of works that deliberately blur fact and fiction. Schools commonly choose to include books and movies ...