How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationa[...]

The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done with her life, and night afte[...]

Beim Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges ist Aharon Appelfeld sieben Jahre alt, ein behütetes Kind assimilierter Juden in Czernowitz. Die Kindheit endet über Nacht: Seine Mutter wird ermordet, nach Monaten im Ghetto und dem Todesmarsch durch die Steppen der Ukraine wird er auch von seinem Vater getre[...]