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Nathan Cohen,
“Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature: A First Step,” review article
on S. Lillian Kremer, ed., Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of
Writers and Their Work, 2 vols.
The
encyclopedia here reviewed is a wide-ranging undertaking, including
more than 300 entries on authors and others who have dealt with the
Holocaust in any field that can be included in a broad definition of
“literature.” These include well-known figures, as well as
lesser-known writers representing the literatures of a variety of
nations and in a variety of languages. Each entry provides the
writer’s biography, as well as a critical review of his/her literary
production, and a generally impressive bibliography. The
encyclopedia’s main flaw lies in the relatively marginal place it
gives to Holocaust literature in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, and
Russian. It is to be hoped that future editions (in the hope such
will be published) will correct this distortion. |
