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The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures IN JEWISH STUDIES The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures IN JEWISH STUDIES The YiddishArtSong performedbyLeonLishner, basso, andLazarWeiner, piano (stereophonic recordalbum) TheHolocaust inHistorical Perspective byYehudaBauer Zakhor:Jewish History andJewishMemory byYosefHayimYerushalmi JewishMysticism andJewish Ethics byJosephDan The Invention ofHebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and theLAnguageofRealism byRobertAlter RecentArchaeologicalDiscoveriesandBiblicalResearch byWilliamG. Dever Jewish Identity in theModern World byMichaelA. Meyer 1. L. PeretzandtheMakingofModernJewish Culture byRuthR.Wisse TheKiss ofGod: SpiritualandMystical Death inJudaism byMichaelFishbane GenderandAssimilationinModernJewishHistory: TheRolesandRepresentationofWomen byPaulaE. Hyman PortraitofAmericanJews: TheLAstHalfofthe20th Century bySamuelC. Heilman Judaism andHellenism inAntiquity: ConflictorConfluence? byLee I.Levine ImOaginingRussianJewry: Memory, History, Identity byStevenJ. Zipperstein PopularCultureandtheShapingofHolocaustMemory inAmerica byAlanMintz Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Melllory in Alllerica ALAN MINTZ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Seattle and London ISBN: 978-0-295-98161-1 The Samuel &Althea Stroum Lectures IN JEWISH STUDIES Samuel Stroum, businessman, community leader, and philan thropist,byamajorgifttotheJewishFederationofGreaterSeattle, established the Samuel and Althea Stroum Philanthropic Fund. InrecognitionofMr. andMrs.Stroum'sdeepinterestinJewish historyandculture,theBoardofDirectorsoftheJewishFederation ofGreaterSeattle,incooperationwiththeJewishStudiesProgram ofthe Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the UniversityofWashington,establishedanannuallectureshipatthe UniversityofWashingtonknownastheSamuelandAltheaStroum Lectureship inJewish Studies.This lectureship makes it possible tobringtotheareaoutstandingscholarsandinterpretersofJewish thought, thus promoting a deeper understanding ofJewish his tory, religion, and culture. Such understanding can lead to an enhancedappreciationoftheJewishcontributionstothehistorical and cultural traditions that have shaped the American nation. The terms of the gift also provide for the publication from timeto timeofthelecturesorotherappropriatematerialsresult ingfrom or related to the lectures. ForBaruch Goldstein Tsaddik Bedorotav Contents Preface IX I. FromSilence to Salience 3 2. Two Models in the Study ofHolocaustRepresentation 36 3. The Holocaust at the Movies: Three Studies inReception 85 Judgment at Nuremberg (196I) 85 The Pawnbroker (1965) 107 Schindler's List (1993) 125 4. The Future ofMemorialization 159 Notes 187 Index 201 This page intentionally left blank Preface M y path to the subject ofthis studywas indirect, andthisvery indirectionis inlarge measure what the bookis about. I am a student ofHebrew literature, andsome years ago, in an effort to understand the dialectic between tradition and modernity, I traced theliteraryresponsestocatastrophiceventsinJewishhistory,begin ningwiththedestructionoftheJerusalemtemplesandendingwith thedestructionofEuropean]ewryinourtime.Whenitcametothe response in Israeli literature to the Holocaust, it became clear that the complexity of this phenomenon could be grasped only in the context ofthe Zionist revolution that had givenbirth to Israel and its ideological repudiations of traditional paradigms. Viewing this literature as being essentially an Israeli branch.of an international literatureoftheHolocaust, whileyieldingsomeinsights, seemedto beverywideofthemark. IsraeliculturehadadmittedtheHolocaust very much on its own terms, and unless the embroiled nature of thoseterms-whichinvolvedallsortsofdenialanddisplacement wasadequatelyunderstood,thehopeofgraspingthetruesignificance ofthese works was remote. As interestin theHolocaustheightenedin the subsequentyears, . Ifound myselfincreasinglyuneasywiththewayinwhichworks of Holocaustcultureweretalkedaboutasiftheyformedaworldunto IX
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