UI Press | Edited by Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder | Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust

Truth and Lamentation

Stories and Poems on the Holocaust

The stories and poems in Truth and Lamentation, written during and after the Holocaust, reveal the human faces hidden behind the all-too-familiar statistics of the event. International in scope, this volume brings together 20 short stories and 90 poems commenting on the essentially incomprehensible nature of the holocaust.

Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder have drawn from a remarkably varied range of writers, representing nine languages and including both Jews and Gentiles. The contributors include the well known and the as yet unknown.

A critical introduction places the selections within two broad categories of literary response to the Holocaust---truth-tellng and lamentation. The first reflects the desire of writers to transmit multiple truths; the second expresses sorrow and loss.

"The scope of the book and the judicious selection of stories and poems make this a very valuable collection."--David Roskies, editor of The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

Milton Teichman, a professor of English at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, has taught courses on the literature of the Holocaust since 1975 and has written on the teaching of Holocaust literature. Sharon Leder, an assistant professor of English at Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York, is the author of The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti.

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