AND VSINC ABV/SIN THE HOLOCAUST Lawrence L. Langer Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in http://archive.org/details/usingabusingholoOOIawr AND USING ABUSING THE HOLOCAUST Jewish Literatureand Culture Series Editor,Alvin H. Rosenfeld AND USING ABUSIN G THE HOLOCAUST Lawrence L. Langer IndianaUniversityPress Bloomington 8cIndianapolis PublishedwiththeassistanceoftheJewishStudiesFund,IndianaUniversityPress. Thisbookisapublicationof IndianaUniversityPress 601 NorthMortonStreet Bloomington,IN47404-3797USA HTTP://IUPRESS.INDIANA.EDU Telephoneorders 800-842-6796 Faxorders 812-855-7931 Ordersbye-mail [email protected] ©2006byLawrenceL.Lancer Allrightsreserved nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans, electronicormechanical,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orbyany informationstorageandretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publisher.TheAssociationofAmericanUniversityPresses'ResolutiononPermis- sionsCONSTITUTESTHEONLYEXCEPTIONTOTHISPROHIBITION. ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials,ANSIZ39.48-1984. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ThetranslationofAbrahamSutzkever's"ForMyChild"onpages79-80appears courtesyofseymourmayneandwasoriginallypublishedinthevolume, BurntPearls:GhettoPoemsofAbrahamSutzkever(1981). LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Langer,LawrenceL. UsingandabusingtheHolocaust/LawrenceL.Langer. p.cm. — (Jewishliteratureandculture) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-253-34745-9 (cloth alk.paper) 1.Holocaust,Jewish (1939-1945)——Personalnarr:atives—Historyandcriticism. 2.Holloictaeursattu,rJee.w4i.shho(l1o9c3a9u-s19t4s5u)rviIvnofrlsu—enbcie.og3r.aHpohlyoc—ahuisstt,oJreywiasnhd(c1r9i3ti9c-i1s9m4.5),in I.Title.II.Series. D804.195.L357 2006 940.53'18-DC22 2005031635 2345 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 For Sandy Whom age cannot wither Nor custom stale. Human beingsarehumanonlyinsofarastheybearwitnesstotheinhuman. GiorgioAgamben