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Book SynopsisAnnette F. Timm is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of
The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin (2010).
Trade Review[The book] makes critical strides in generating a new, sophisticated conversation about Ka-Tzetnik’s life and work for scholars of literature, sexuality, and the Holocaust. * History: Reviews of New Books *
This volume is a valuable and timely reassessment of Ka-Tzetnik’s work and reputation in the context of current debates in Holocaust studies. * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *
A signal achievement in Holocaust studies, this is the first book of essays in English devoted to writer Ka-Tzetnik, also known as Yehiel De-Nur or Dinur, who was an Auschwitz survivor … Written by scholars at universities in the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Israel, and Italy, the essays (which emanate from a 2013 conference on Ka-Tzetnik) provide invaluable information … Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *
This indispensable book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Ka-Tzenik. In a series of trenchant essays, it uncovers and analyzes the numerous layers of meanings that make up his oeuvre, ranging from its exploitation of camp pornography to its profound insights into the reality of what he called "the other planet". Ka-Tzenik is revealed here as a crucial voice in the ongoing attempt to represent the horrors of Nazi genocide. * Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University, USA *
A unique publication, the first of its kind in English. A link in the scholarly chain of Holocaust Studies, a study of the reception of Holocaust literature and testimonial texts in general, through the lens of Ka-Tzetnik’s oeuvre in particular. The book introduces an important dialogue to the English-speaking scholarly sphere. * Yechiel Szeintuch, Joseph & Ida Berman Professor Emeritus of Yiddish, Hebrew University, Jerusalem *
This excellent, intellectually-challenging book is the first collection of essays in English devoted exclusively to the writings of Ka-Tzetnik. It successfully redraws the boundaries of Holocaust scholarship by linking in new and creative ways the topics of testimony and fiction, literature and pulp fiction, sexuality and the eroticization of the Nazi past, kitsch and global memory. * Alon Confino, Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Dilemmas of Ka-Tzetnik’s International Fame,
Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) 2. An Author as His Own Biographer - Ka-Tzetnik: A Man and a Tattooed Number
, Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 3. Testimony in Holocaust Historiography,
Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) 4. The Evil Spirits of the
Shoah: Ka-Tzentik’s Literary Testimony to Death and Survival in the Concentrationary Universe -
Iris Milner (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 5. The Poetics of the Other Planet: Testimony and Chronotope in Ka-Tzetnik’s
Piepel -
Or Rogovin (Bucknell University, USA) 6. Sexual Violence in Ka-Tzetnik’s
House of Dolls - Pascale Bos (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 7. The Eroticization of Witnessing: The Twofold Legacy of Ka-Tzetnik,
Guido Vitiello (University of Rome, Italy) 8. Ka-Tzetnik, Primo Levi and the Muslims,
Uri Cohen (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 9. How to Understand
Shivitti?,
Iris Roebling-Grau (Ludwig Maximillian University, Germany) 10. Beyond Boundaries: History, the Holocaust and Literature,
Dirk Rupnow (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 11. Conclusion,
Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) Bibliography Index
