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Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public i...
Lovers in Auschwitz
'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and Dresden Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia’s story began when they first locked eyes across the work floor. It was the start of a romance that could have unfolded anywhere if it weren’t for one key difference: Zippi and David were prisoners in history’s most infamous death camp. David and Zippi defied the odds by surviving for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz. Shielded by the protection of their fellow inmates, saved on occasion ...
Accadde ad Auschwitz
Helen Zippi Spitzer e David Wisnia si innamorarono subito, al primo sguardo. Lui diciassettenne appassionato d'opera, lei venticinquenne botanica mancata, con un'irrefrenabile passione per la vita. La scintilla sarebbe potuta scoccare dovunque. Eppure, quell'incontro avvenne in uno dei posti più terribili e crudeli della storia umana: il campo di Birkenau, ad Auschwitz. Zippi e David erano due prigionieri e sopravvissero anni in quel luogo di morte senza speranza, cinereo, freddo, abbrutito. Il loro amore, fugace e trattenuto ma intenso e viscerale, fu protetto e custodito anche dai loro amici e dagli altri prigionieri. Poi la liberazione, la fine della guerra e la promessa che si sarebbero...
Een liefde in Auschwitz
Een indrukwekkende combinatie van kampgetuigenis en liefdesverhaal: het waargebeurde verhaal van David Wisnia en Helen Spitzer, die verliefd werden in Auschwitz, zonder het van elkaar te weten de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleefden en elkaar pas zeventig jaar later terugzagen ‘Keren Blankfeld weet de gruwelen van het vernietigingskamp Auschwitz-Birkenau vanuit verschillende perspectieven en met een journalistiek oog voor detail en afstand vast te leggen. Dat is de grote verdienste van haar boek’ Telegraaf Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1943. Toen hij haar voor het eerst zag, wist David Wisnia direct dat Helen ‘Zippi’ Spitzer bijzonder was. Zippi was als een van de eerste Joodse vrouwen naar Auschwi...
The Art of Memory in Exile
In their virtuoso displays of literary talent, Nabokov and Kundera showcase the strategies that allow their protagonists to succeed as emigres: a creative fusing of past and present through the prism of the imagination.".
Still Alive
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking abou...
Can One Live after Auschwitz?
This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity,” the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical, life-long hope that philosophy might not be entirely closed to the idea of redemption. He prepares for an altogether different praxis, one no longer conceived in traditionally M...
