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Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust

by Phyllis Lassner

BiographyGerman JewsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureInfluenceJewsJews, GermanKindertransports (Rescue operations)

In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.

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