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A Jewish Child in a Polish Hiding Place. Children, Adults, and Animals in
Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed and Wilhelm Dichter’s God’s Horse
- Authors: Sławomir Jacek Żurek
  Abstract: The article offers a comparative analysis of two contemporary novels by Polish and Hebrew writers of two different generations: Wilhelm Dichter, a child of the Holocaust, and Nava Samel, representing the second post-Shoah generation. The article analyzes the novels with a view to how they portray the situation of Jewish children in hiding places in Poland during Second World War. The literary images of children, adults, and animals in these novels are compared from the perspective of memory studies, animal studies, and trans-generation studies.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Remembering the Shoah and Second World War in German Third Generation
Literature
- Authors: Luisa Banki
  Abstract: In this article, the author examines how the Shoah and Second World War are remembered in German third-generation literature. After contextualising third-generation literature in contemporary debates about memory, she offers readings of three paradigmatic works: Vanessa F. Fogel’s Sag es mir [Tell me] (2010), Channah Trzebiner’s Die Enkelin oder Wie ich zu Pessach die vier Fragen nicht wusste [The granddaughter or how I didn’t know the four questions during Passover] (2013), and Johannes Böhme’s Das Unglück schreitet schnell [Misfortune moves quickly] (2019). She identifies self-reflexivity as an essential narrative strategy in the writings of third-generation authors. Their self-reflection and self-positioning as grandchildren open meta-perspectives in thinking about the possibilities of remembering the Shoah and the Second World War by succeeding generations. The remembered experience and the experience of remembrance become inseparable.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Trapped Between Hitler and Stalin: Nazi Bogeymen and Implicated Subjects
in Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction
- Authors: Mateusz Świetlicki
  Abstract: This article studies the portrayal of Nazi and German characters in Gabriele Goldstone’s Tainted Amber (2021), a Young Adult novel set in East Prussia right before the war, and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s middle-grade book Don’t Tell the Enemy (2018), set in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. The article demonstrates that Skrypuch and Goldstone point to the role of propaganda, ideology, and opportunism in the spread of Nazism, anti-Semitism, and Stalinism. Amongst stereotypical Nazi Bogeymen and innocent victims, both novels feature characters entangled between Hitler and Stalin that emerge as what Michael Rothberg termed implicated subjects.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Anne Frank is Dead and is Living in New York
- Authors: Pnina Rosenberg
  Abstract: Cynthia Ozick speculates whether it would have been better if Anne Frank’s Diary would have remained lost, thus preventing the creation of the diarist’s canonization as a saint in Jewish-American culture. Similar criticism can be traced in the “What-if” novels The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (1979) and Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (2012), that revive Frank and place her in America. Although Roth’s diarist is an attractive young brunette and Auslander’s is a gray-haired elderly woman, both conclude that for the benefit of their American public and Frank’s major role in the “Shoah business” she had better stay dead.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
The Unity of Subject and Object: Toys of Holocaust Survivors as Memory
Transmitters in Children’s Literature
- Authors: Irena Barbara Kalla
  Abstract: In this article, I discuss three picture books about the Holocaust produced by Israeli, Flemish and Polish authors: Bear and Fred (2016), Een pop voor Hannah [A doll for Hannah] (2018), and Mama zawsze wraca [Mum always comes back] (2020). Their young protagonists represent Holocaust survivors, and the toys featured in these visual narratives represent their authentic playthings from that time, which today are put on display at the museums of Yad Vashem in Israel and Kazerne Dossin in Belgium. I examine the characteristic amalgamation of subject and object: the child protagonist and a toy. My aim is to explore these relationships, the representation of the agency of people and toys and the epistemic and commemorative value of these narratives. My theoretical framework draws on memory studies and thing theory, in which the being of objects is valued equally to the being of subjects and in which researchers argue for the agency of nonhuman materials, insisting that not only humans, bu...
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Reading Time in Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto
- Authors: Daniel Feldman
  Abstract: Children’s literature about the Holocaust stages a descent into traumatic history that transforms time into text. This article reads two youth novels about the Warsaw Ghetto to illustrate how the Holocaust functions as a chronotope of difficult memory in contemporary children’s books. Arka czasu [The ark of time], a 2013 children’s novel in Polish by Marcin Szczygielski, and 28 Tage lang [28 days], a 2014 young adult novel in German by David Safier, depict storytelling and books as markers of temporality in juvenile narratives of the Holocaust. The article argues that reading time is a persistent topos in making the Holocaust relevant to young readers.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
The Holocaust Literature for Children in Translation into Polish
- Authors: Sylwia Karolak
  Abstract: In the article the image of the Holocaust contained in Polish books for children is subjected to critical analysis in the perspective of works translated into Polish from other languages. Two works are particularly interesting in this context: Smoke of Anton Fortes, which is considered controversial in Polish and focuses discussions, and My Dog Lala by Roman Kent, which is basically absent from analyses and discussions. The polemical point of reference becomes Chika, the Dog in the Ghetto by Batszewa Dagan, which is rather criticized by researchers. The analysis of the Polish reception of the translated works makes it possible to point out the problems of domestic children’s literature about the Holocaust, related to expressivity, appropriateness and form, taboo areas, or genological classifications. Polish authors spin a salvific narrative, but do not allow young audiences to confront with the experience of the Holocaust, its tragedy and uniqueness. Fortes and Kent, on the other ha...
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Frozen in Sorrow: Winterijs [Winter ice] by Peter Van Gestel
- Authors: Vanessa Joosen
  Abstract: Peter Van Gestel’s Winterijs [Winter ice] from 2001 is one of the most lauded Dutch children’s books. This article contextualizes its evocation of the Holocaust in the didactic, recreational and aesthetic functions of children’s literature, and in the epistemological, psychological and ethical tensions that Katrien Vloeberghs identifies in children’s literature about the Holocaust. Winter Ice informs readers about the Shoah without overburdening the plot and by respecting readers’ emotional vulnerability. Its naïve, witty narrator is central to this process. While acknowledging malice, indifference and memory’s fallibility, Winter Ice suggests that human connections are possible and offer comfort and hope in meaningful ways.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
The Life of a Story: Aharon Appelfeld’s Double as a Mode of
Holocaust Representation
- Authors: Michal Ben-Horin
  Abstract: In a 2000 interview, Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor and prominent Israeli writer, was reminded of what he had not mentioned in his memoir. This article focuses on two of Appelfeld’s novels following the memoir, Suddenly, Love (2004) and The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping (2010), by exploring the figure of the “double” (Doppelgänger). My claim is that the literary double demonstrates Appelfeld’s attempts to work through his trauma by transgressing the lines between experience and reflection, imagination and reality, hegemonic and diasporic cultures, the living and the dead, within a story that embeds the self without ignoring the other.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08
Legacies of the Shoah in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is
- Authors: Sarah Minslow
  Abstract: This article compares Everything Is Illuminated (2002) by American author Jonathan Safran Foer to De Joodse Messias [The Jewish Messiah] (2004) by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Both novels contribute to ongoing discussions about Holocaust representation in the face of a generation temporally and spatially removed from the historical events. Ultimately, by blurring temporalities, focusing on what families inherit, and using humor these novels emphasize human agency in atrocity and the impossibilities of reconciliation by highlighting the capacity humans have for hurting one another and the limits of forgiveness.
  PubDate: 2024-08-08

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