Förintelsen i litteraturen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22307256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | KARL-JOHAN ILLMAN, Karl‐Johan Illman (Åbo Akademi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-141 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0348-1646 • E-ISSN: 2343-4929 |
| Publisher | Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.30752/nj.69477 |
| OpenAlex | W2475789366 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper is an introduction to and commentary on what is often referred to as the holocaust literature. The author favors terms such as shoah or churban, which mean ‘catastrophe’, ‘destruction’ over the more widespread term holocaust. The latter is a sacrificial term from the Bible meaning “burn offering”. This has misleading connotations: the destruction of European Jews cannot be considered a sacrifice in any ordinary sense. The paper discusses the various genres of holocaust literature and their relation to history. The author arrives at the conclusion that fictional literature need not necessarily have a weaker relation nor give a more faulty representation of what happened than documentary literature, such as diaries and memoirs. Finally, various criticisms of holocaust literature and the preoccupation with it are discussed. The author finds no grounds for avoiding the study of this literature, to the contrary he argues that it is in fact necessary for later generations to know about and reflect on this dark chapter in human history. It is only deemed harmful if it then occupies the entire curriculum of Jewish studies at an academic institution
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Institution · Jewish literature · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sacrifice · Social science · Sociology · The Holocaust · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German History and Society · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
Holocaust testimonies
Confronting the Holocaust
Litteratur om och av Elie Wiesel
Glimt fra Elie Wiesels forfatterskap
Den teologiska Holocaustlitteraturen
Crisis and Covenant
The Memory of Justice
Literature as Resistance
Act and idea in the Nazi Genocide
The Resonance of Dust
Out of the Whirlwind
Stranger at Home
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |