Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents

Literary and Historiographical Approaches

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Beschreibung:

From the very beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, the limits of language, and the (im)possibilities of conveying knowledge to future generations. In recent years, literary studies have undertaken various attempts to define *Holocaust literature,* focusing on questions of genre, different time periods, themes, and experiences. In the integrated history of the Holocaust, ego-documents came to the attention of scholars with a focus on agency, experience and factuality. The contributors to this volume take up these debates and bring together literary and historical perspectives on Holocaust literature and ego-documents to discuss their relevance for Holocaust studies.

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Éva Kovács (Edited by)
Éva Kovács is a sociologist, deputy director of Academic Affairs at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, and a research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences/Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence in Budapest. Her research fields include the history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, research on memory and remembrance, and Jewish identity in Hungary.

Gerald Lamprecht (Edited by)
Gerald Lamprecht is head of the Center for Jewish Studies at Universität Graz and a professor of Jewish history and contemporary history. He researches in and heads numerous projects on Austrian Jewish history, the history of persecution during the Nazi era and Austrian cultural memory. He is also a coordinator of the antisemitism research group at the Institute of Culture Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main research areas are Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries, history of National Socialism and the persecution of the Jews, memory studies and history of antisemitism.

Olaf Terpitz (Edited by)
Olaf Terpitz teaches Jewish literatures at the Center for Jewish Studies at Universität Graz where he serves as deputy director. His research interests encompass comparative literature studies, Jewish cultures in Eastern, Central and Southeast Europe, translation, migration and transformation.

Marianne Windsperger (Edited by)
Marianne Windsperger works as a research coordinator at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies. Here, she coordinates the Austrian consortium EHRI-AT. She studied comparative literature and Romance languages at Universität Wien. Her research focuses on literary representations of the Holocaust, the afterlife of Yiddish literature, and transgenerational memorial practices.

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Produktdetails:

• Herausgeber:in: Éva Kovács, Gerald Lamprecht, Olaf Terpitz, Marianne Windsperger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 250 Seiten
• ISBN: 9783837678840