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In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be
invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal.
This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of
survivors, those who were the targets of genocidal attack. Three
main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion,
the contextual history of the Holocaust, and Midrashic
considerations that arise from biblical reference. After setting
the groundwork of autobiographical theory, intertextuality, and the
Midrashic tradition, the chapters examine references to Adam and
Eve's expulsion from paradise, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the
Akeda, Jacob's struggle with the angel, and Cain's murder of Abel.
Of particular importance are the ways in which these allusions shed
light both on the original text and on the act of genocide
perpetrated by the Nazis.
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Mitzvah (Hardcover)
Deborah Lee Prescott, Ellen Felman
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Discovery Miles 5 350
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