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Children of Job : American second-generation witnesses to the Holocaust / Alan L. Berger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culturePublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585043523
  • 9780585043524
  • 9780791433577
  • 0791433579
  • 9780791433584
  • 0791433587
  • 0791496430
  • 9780791496435
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Children of Job.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/358 20
LOC classification:
  • PS153.J4 B468 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Introduction -- From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness -- Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism -- Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism -- Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism -- Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism -- Whither the Future? -- Back Matter -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Back Cover.
Summary: Annotation Focuses on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, shedding light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. Demonstrates how the children of survivors represent a variety of orientations to Judaism and how they share the legacy of the Shoah, and discusses distinctive second- generation theological and psychosocial themes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index.

Print version record.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Introduction -- From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness -- Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism -- Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism -- Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism -- Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism -- Whither the Future? -- Back Matter -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Back Cover.

Annotation Focuses on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, shedding light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. Demonstrates how the children of survivors represent a variety of orientations to Judaism and how they share the legacy of the Shoah, and discusses distinctive second- generation theological and psychosocial themes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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