Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | "Text originally written in Hebrew and translated by Ralph Mandel, except 'Ghetto in an annihilation camp', which was first presented in English at the Fourth Yad Vashem International History Conference"--Publisher's note. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue
- 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
- 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp'
- Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis
- 5. Observations and perplexities about senes in the memory
- 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers
- 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death
- 8. Landscapes of a private mythology
- 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law'
- 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries
- 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death
- 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time
- 13. God's grieving.