Alan L. Berger

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The Continuing Agony: From The Carmelite Convent To The Crosses At Auschwitz

Alan L. Berger

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Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World

Alan L. Berger

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust

Alan L. Berger

An original contribution to Holocaust studies that demonstrates the theological and psychosocial issues emerging in novels and films by sons and daughters of survivors. Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. It is the first systematic analysis of a body of work that introduces a new generation of Jewish writers and filmmakers, as well as revealing how the survivors' legacy is shaping -- and being shaped by -- the second generation. Carefully studying the work of these contemporary children of Job, Berger demonstrates how the offspring, like the survivors themselves, represent a variety of orientations to Judaism, have significant theological differences, and share the legacy of the Shoah. Berger clearly shows that members of the second generation participate fully in both the American and Jewish dimensions of their identity and articulates distinctive second-generation theological and psychosocial themes. "It is the most comprehensive analysis of material on the second generation. Alan Berger shows an excellent, comprehensive knowledge of American literary work on the subject as well as the mainstream major critical analysis of the material". -- Yaffa Eliach, author/creator of the Tower of Life at the U.S. Holocausts Memorial Museum

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

What Have We Learned: Telling the Story and Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust Papers of the 20th Anniversary Scholars' Conference

Alan L. Berger; Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches 1990 Vanderbil; Hubert G. Locke; Franklin Hamlin Littell; Edwin Mellen Press

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What Have We Learned?: Telling the Story and Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust Papers of the 20th Anniversary Scholars' Conference

Alan L. Berger; Franklin H. Littell

A selection of papers presented at the 20th Anniversary of the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches. The papers came from five countries and covered a wide range of academic disciplines. A study and discussion of the years of the SHOAH and the KIRCHENKAMPF, it includes Elie Wiesel's message pointing up the imperative of asking the questions, of living faithfully and honestly with the central questions of death and life. The volume concludes with Yaffa Eliach's message which movingly brings those who died into their part in the dialogue.

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, 1939-1989

Alan L. Berger

Survivor testimonies and philosophical responses to the Holocaust, testifying to the tenacity and self-renewal of the human spirit. Essays from the 1989 Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.

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Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust

Alan L. Berger; Zev Garber; Richard Libowitz

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Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

Alan L. Berger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1985

Witness to the Sacred: Mystical Tales of Primitive Hasidism

Alan L. Berger

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Other editions: 1977