Truth and Lamentation
Stories and Poems on the Holocaust
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1994]
Format: Book
Description: 526 pages ; 23 cm
The stories and poems in Truth and Lamentation, written during and after the Holocaust, reveal the human faces hidden behind the all-too-familiar statistics of the event. International in scope, this volume brings together 20 short stories and 90 poems commenting on the essentially incomprehensible nature of the Holocaust. Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder have drawn from a remarkably varied range of writers, representing nine languages and including both Jews and Gentiles. The contributors include the well known and the as yet unknown. A critical introduction places the selections within two broad categories of literary response to the Holocaust - truthtelling and lamentation. The first reflects the desire of writers to transmit multiple truths; the second expresses sorrow and loss.
Contents:
Theresienstadt / Myra Sklarew -- September Song / Geoffrey Hill -- Lament for the European Exile / A.L. Strauss -- To the Six Million / Irving Feldman -- At the Rim of the Heavens / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- How They Killed My Grandmother / Boris Slutsk.
25 Live Hens and One Dead Document / Jozef Zelkowicz -- Chronicle of a Single Day / Leyb Goldin -- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- The Block of Death / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- Esther's First Born / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- The Lemon / Arnost Lustig -- The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- An Old Acquaintance / Elie Wiesel -- A Plaque on Via Mazzini / Giorgio Bassani -- Bertha / Aharon Appelfeld -- The Season of the Dead / Pierre Gascar -- Journey through the Night / Jackov Lind -- Doves on Wires / Joseph Kirman -- It Will Be as in Our Dream / Joseph Kirman -- In the Camp / Gertrud Kolmar -- The Seventh Eclogue / Miklos Radnoti -- Fragment / Miklos Radnoti -- From "Street for Arrivals, Street for Departures" / Charlotte Delbo -- Death Fugue / Paul Celan -- Instructions for Crossing the Border / Dan Pagis -- A Woman Said to Her Neighbor / Anna Swirszczynska -- Protocols / Randall Jarrell -- Theresienstadt Poem / Robert Mezey -- Still, Still / Shmerke Kaczerginski -- Here Too as in Jerusalem / Mieczyslaw Jastrun -- Lamentation / Jerzy Ficowski -- Say This City Has Ten Million Souls / W.H. Auden -- The housing project at Drancy / Marge Piercy -- Riddle / William Heyen -- The Concentration Camps: from "The Invocation to Kali" / May Sarton -- The Silent Generation / Louis Simpson -- 1980 / Abraham Sutzkever -- Both Your Mothers / Jerzy Ficowski -- A Poem for Anton Schmidt / William Pillin -- Silence, and a Starry Night / Hirsh Glik -- Never Say / Hirsh Glik -- On the Anniversary of the Ghetto Theater / Abraham Sutzkever -- Counterattack / Wladyslaw Szlengel -- Black Mountain / Marge Piercy -- Building the Barricade / Anna Swirszczynska -- And There You Were / Abba Kovner -- Poland, 1944: My mother is walking down a road: from "Bashert" / Irena Klepfisz -- Budapest: June 1944: from The Testing of Hanna Senesh / Ruth Whitman -- Yugoslavia, 1944: from "Letters in the Family" / Adrienne Rich -- The Bird / Louis Simpson -- Research / Charles Reznikoff -- Heinrich Himmler Reichsfuehrer SS -- 8 April 1945 / W.D. Snodgrass -- How? / Abraham Sutzkever -- Chorus of the Rescued / Nelly Sachs -- The Silent Partner / Rajzel Zychlinsky -- Words for Primo Levi / Richard Fein -- "More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest / Randall Jarrell -- Simple Truths / William Heyen -- Spit / C.K. Williams -- During the Eichmann Trial / Denise Levertov -- A Visitation / W.D. Snodgrass -- Campo di Fiori / Czeslaw Milosz -- A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto / Czeslaw Milosz -- After Auschwitz / Anne Sexton -- A Scrap of Time / Ida Fink -- A Ghetto Dog / Isaiah Spiegel -- The Name / Aharon Megged -- The Night / Samuel Y. Agnon -- Hanka / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The Day My Sister Married / Marga Minco -- The Cheek of the Trout / Norma Rosen -- My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner / Chaim Grade -- From "Lekh-lekho" / Simcha Bunim Shayevitsh -- From "Spring 1942" / Simcha Bunim Shayevitsh -- From The Song of the Murdered Jewish People (Cantos VI and IX) / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- God of Mercy / Kadya Molodovsky -- Without Jews / Jacob Glatstein -- Psalm / Paul Celan -- The "Lovers of Israel" at the Belzhets Death Camp / Itsik Manger -- Draft of a Reparations Agreement / Dan Pagis -- Isaac / Amir Gilboa -- Elegy / A.M. Klein -- From "I Believe" / Aaron Zeitlin -- Sometimes I Want to Go Up / Rachel Korn -- For Adolf Eichmann / Primo Levi -- We Were Not Like Dogs / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Under the Tooth of Their Plow / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Song of the Yellow Patch / H. Leivick -- Already embraced by the arm of heavenly solace / Nelly Sachs -- If I only knew / Nelly Sachs -- At Night / Rachel Boimwall -- Burnt / Boris Slutsky -- From "My Little Sister" / Abba Kovner -- Against Parting / Natan Zach -- After.
25 Live Hens and One Dead Document / Jozef Zelkowicz -- Chronicle of a Single Day / Leyb Goldin -- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- The Block of Death / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- Esther's First Born / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- The Lemon / Arnost Lustig -- The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- An Old Acquaintance / Elie Wiesel -- A Plaque on Via Mazzini / Giorgio Bassani -- Bertha / Aharon Appelfeld -- The Season of the Dead / Pierre Gascar -- Journey through the Night / Jackov Lind -- Doves on Wires / Joseph Kirman -- It Will Be as in Our Dream / Joseph Kirman -- In the Camp / Gertrud Kolmar -- The Seventh Eclogue / Miklos Radnoti -- Fragment / Miklos Radnoti -- From "Street for Arrivals, Street for Departures" / Charlotte Delbo -- Death Fugue / Paul Celan -- Instructions for Crossing the Border / Dan Pagis -- A Woman Said to Her Neighbor / Anna Swirszczynska -- Protocols / Randall Jarrell -- Theresienstadt Poem / Robert Mezey -- Still, Still / Shmerke Kaczerginski -- Here Too as in Jerusalem / Mieczyslaw Jastrun -- Lamentation / Jerzy Ficowski -- Say This City Has Ten Million Souls / W.H. Auden -- The housing project at Drancy / Marge Piercy -- Riddle / William Heyen -- The Concentration Camps: from "The Invocation to Kali" / May Sarton -- The Silent Generation / Louis Simpson -- 1980 / Abraham Sutzkever -- Both Your Mothers / Jerzy Ficowski -- A Poem for Anton Schmidt / William Pillin -- Silence, and a Starry Night / Hirsh Glik -- Never Say / Hirsh Glik -- On the Anniversary of the Ghetto Theater / Abraham Sutzkever -- Counterattack / Wladyslaw Szlengel -- Black Mountain / Marge Piercy -- Building the Barricade / Anna Swirszczynska -- And There You Were / Abba Kovner -- Poland, 1944: My mother is walking down a road: from "Bashert" / Irena Klepfisz -- Budapest: June 1944: from The Testing of Hanna Senesh / Ruth Whitman -- Yugoslavia, 1944: from "Letters in the Family" / Adrienne Rich -- The Bird / Louis Simpson -- Research / Charles Reznikoff -- Heinrich Himmler Reichsfuehrer SS -- 8 April 1945 / W.D. Snodgrass -- How? / Abraham Sutzkever -- Chorus of the Rescued / Nelly Sachs -- The Silent Partner / Rajzel Zychlinsky -- Words for Primo Levi / Richard Fein -- "More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest / Randall Jarrell -- Simple Truths / William Heyen -- Spit / C.K. Williams -- During the Eichmann Trial / Denise Levertov -- A Visitation / W.D. Snodgrass -- Campo di Fiori / Czeslaw Milosz -- A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto / Czeslaw Milosz -- After Auschwitz / Anne Sexton -- A Scrap of Time / Ida Fink -- A Ghetto Dog / Isaiah Spiegel -- The Name / Aharon Megged -- The Night / Samuel Y. Agnon -- Hanka / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The Day My Sister Married / Marga Minco -- The Cheek of the Trout / Norma Rosen -- My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner / Chaim Grade -- From "Lekh-lekho" / Simcha Bunim Shayevitsh -- From "Spring 1942" / Simcha Bunim Shayevitsh -- From The Song of the Murdered Jewish People (Cantos VI and IX) / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- God of Mercy / Kadya Molodovsky -- Without Jews / Jacob Glatstein -- Psalm / Paul Celan -- The "Lovers of Israel" at the Belzhets Death Camp / Itsik Manger -- Draft of a Reparations Agreement / Dan Pagis -- Isaac / Amir Gilboa -- Elegy / A.M. Klein -- From "I Believe" / Aaron Zeitlin -- Sometimes I Want to Go Up / Rachel Korn -- For Adolf Eichmann / Primo Levi -- We Were Not Like Dogs / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Under the Tooth of Their Plow / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Song of the Yellow Patch / H. Leivick -- Already embraced by the arm of heavenly solace / Nelly Sachs -- If I only knew / Nelly Sachs -- At Night / Rachel Boimwall -- Burnt / Boris Slutsky -- From "My Little Sister" / Abba Kovner -- Against Parting / Natan Zach -- After.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Anthologies.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Anthologies.
ISBN:
0252020286
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SSHC LITERATURE Tru | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
"An Illini book"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-526).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-526).