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Author Kulka, Otto Dov.

Title Landscapes of the metropolis of death [electronic resource] : reflections on memory and imagination / Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvard University Press ed.
Description xii, 127 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Language "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.
Subject Kulka, Otto Dov.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Memory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Mandel, Ralph.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674072893 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674075092 (e-book)

 
    
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