Landscapes of the metropolis of death reflections on memory and imagination / Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel.

Author/creator Kulka, Otto Dov
Format Electronic
EditionFirst Harvard University Press edition.
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxii, 127 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents 1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue -- 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz -- 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp' -- Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis -- 5. Observations and perplexities about senes in the memory -- 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers -- 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death -- 8. Landscapes of a private mythology -- 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law' -- 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries -- 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death -- 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time -- 13. God's grieving.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Language"Text originally written in Hebrew and translated by Ralph Mandel, except 'Ghetto in an annihilation camp', which was first presented in English at the Fourth Yad Vashem International History Conference"--Publisher's note.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012041721
ISBN9780674072893 (cloth : alk. paper)

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