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Based on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. This book illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Opening Remarks
The Writer and the Writing
The Consciousness of the Book
The Measure of Time
The Chronicle of the Holy
Assailing God
The Crumbling of Creation
Meaning Undone
The Fragmentation of Home and Family
The Assault on the Feminine
The Suffocation of the Child
The Human Image Defiled
Death and the Death of Death
Clinging to Life
Reopening Remarks: The Assignation of the Reader
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

Along the Edge of Annihilation

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1999
      ISBN13: 9780295977829, 978-0295977829
      ISBN10: 0295977825

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Based on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. This book illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Opening Remarks
      The Writer and the Writing
      The Consciousness of the Book
      The Measure of Time
      The Chronicle of the Holy
      Assailing God
      The Crumbling of Creation
      Meaning Undone
      The Fragmentation of Home and Family
      The Assault on the Feminine
      The Suffocation of the Child
      The Human Image Defiled
      Death and the Death of Death
      Clinging to Life
      Reopening Remarks: The Assignation of the Reader
      Notes
      Bibliography of Works Cited
      Index

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