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Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence

Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939–2008

Tamara Alvarez-Detrell Michael G. Paulson Gary D. Mole

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
08 March 2024
"In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its various social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich and unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as ""Holocaust Poetry.""

""Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence is a comprehensive, lucid, and erudite study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Holocaust. Unlike the work of English-language Holocaust poets, French-language verse has been until now largely ignored. By ensuring that Francophone Jewish poets are finally heard, Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence constitutes an important scholarly intervention in the study of Holocaust literature.""

—Helena Duffy, Professor of French, University of Wrocław, Poland

""An astonishing, comparative, comprehensive, and powerful scan of the various forms of poetic writing in French about the Shoah, never presented in this scope before, by authors belonging to a large variety of national and cultural backgrounds, providing the foundation of texts to be considered in future scholarship on poetry of the Shoah in other languages.""

—Thomas Nolden, Professor of Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College, Mass"

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Series edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   259
Dimensions:   Height: 225mm,  Width: 150mm, 
Weight:   525g
ISBN:   9781636676142
ISBN 10:   1636676146
Series:   Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Pages:   308
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gary D. Mole is Professor in Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Culture at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has published extensively on Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Jabes, and Bruno Durocher, as well as on poetry of the Great War, poetry of the deportation, and French literary representations of the Second World War and the Shoah.

Reviews for Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939–2008

"""Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence is a comprehensive, lucid, and erudite study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Holocaust. Unlike the work of English-language Holocaust poets, French-language verse has been until now largely ignored. By ensuring that Francophone Jewish poets are finally heard, Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence constitutes an important scholarly intervention in the study of Holocaust literature."" —Helena Duffy, Professor of French, University of Wrocław, Poland ""An astonishing, comparative, comprehensive, and powerful scan of the various forms of poetic writing in French about the Shoah, never presented in this scope before, by authors belonging to a large variety of national and cultural backgrounds, providing the foundation of texts to be considered in future scholarship on poetry of the Shoah in other languages."" —Thomas Nolden, Professor of Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College, Mass"


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