Introduction: Jewish Existence | |
Covenant Transformations | |
Covenant and Modernity | |
The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis | |
Literary Response to Covenant Crisis | |
American Judaism and the Holocaust | |
Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists | |
Holocaust as Watershed | |
Holocaust Problematics | |
Theological Responses | |
Theology and Literature | |
Is the Holocaust Beyond Artistic Expression? | |
Who Should Write of the Holocaust? | |
Trivializing the Holocaust | |
American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique | |
The Role of the American Jewish Novelist | |
Holocaust Responses I: Judaism as a Religious Value System | |
The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry | |
Hasidic Tales | |
Considering the Evidence | |
Arthur A. Cohen | |
Cynthia Ozick | |
Hugh Nissenson | |
Elie Wiesel | |
Isaac B. Singer | |
Conclusion | |
Holocaust Responses II: Judaism as a Secular Value System | |
Considering the Evidence | |
Bernard Malamud | |
Saul Bellow | |
Susan F. Schaeffer | |
Cynthia Ozick | |
Pre-Holocaust America: Jewish Existence and Covenant Diminishment | |
Hugh Nissenson | |
Robert Kotlowitz | |
Conclusion | |
Holocaust Responses III: Symbolic Judaism | |
Considering the Evidence | |
Philip Roth | |
Richard Elman | |
Edward Lewis Wallant | |
Norma Rosen | |
Bernard Malamud | |
Conclusion | |
Holocaust and Covenant | |
The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism | |
Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu | |
Problems and Possibilities | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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