Sybil Milton

John K. Roth

Stephen C. Feinstein

Judith Greenberg

Rebecca Scherr

S. Lilian Kremer

Mary D. Lagerwey

Susan Nowak

Pascale Rachel Bos

Catherine A. Bernard

An innovative contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, this set of interdisciplinary essays undertakes a gendered analysis of both Jewish and non-Jewish women as perpetrators, victims, rescuers, survivors, and postwar artists.

Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust

Experience and Expression

Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event of the twentieth century, if not in Western Civilization itself, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a broad spectrum of artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work. Contents include: "Picturing Death: Better This than Silence," Robert Poor "Probing the Limits of the Politics of Representation," Jeremy Varon "After Auschwitz: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later," Monica Bohm-Duchen "Jewish Artists in New York: The 1940s," Matthew Baigell "From the Sublime to the Abject: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later," Andrew Weinstein "R.B. Kitaj's 'Good Bad' Diasporism and the Body in American Jewish Postmodern Art," Sander Gilman "Bak's Variations on a Theme by Bak," Lawrence Langer "Toward a Post-Holocaust Theology in Art: The Search for the Absent and Present God," Stephen Feinstein "How to Remember," Nancy Weston "Disaster Art: A Plea Against the Peripheral Stuff," Pier Marton "Conversations with Rzeszow: An Artist's Journey," Joyce Lyon "Haunting the Empty Place," Ziva Amishai-Maisels

Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust

Absence / Presence

Stephen C. Feinstein

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