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What's the Word? Literature of the Holocaust

From Modern Language Association | 00:29:43
Producers: Sally Placksin

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Memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction about the Holocaust.

Many people consider the Holocaust the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. James E. Young looks at how we know what we know about the Holocaust--and talks about survivors' journals and memoirs and about a poem by the Israeli poet Dan Pagis. Robert Skloot looks at a play in which the protagonist--a real figure in history--confronts difficult ethical decisions; and Froma Zeitlin focuses on the Pulitzer Prize-winning _Maus_, by the second-generation graphic artist Art Spiegelman.

Well-suited to Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, 2005.

Photo Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Memorijalni Muzej Jasenovac

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Originally fed on September 20, 2001

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