Literary and historical perspectives on Holocaust literature and ego documents: What is their relevance for Holocaust studies?

From the very beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, the limits of language, and the (im)possibilities of conveying knowledge to future generations. In recent years, literary studies have undertaken various attempts to define 'Holocaust literature,' focusing on questions of genre, different time periods, themes, and experiences. In the integrated history of the Holocaust, ego documents came to the attention of scholars with a focus on agency, experience and factuality. The contributors to this volume take up these debates and bring together literary and historical perspectives on Holocaust literature and ego documents to discuss their relevance for Holocaust studies.

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Éva Kovács is a sociologist, deputy director of Academic Affairs at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, and a research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences/Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence in Budapest. Her research fields include the history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, research on memory and remembrance, and Jewish identity in Hungary.

Gerald Lamprecht (Univ.-Prof.) ist Historiker und Leiter des Centrums für Jüdische Studien der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Seine Forschungsschwerunkte sind die Jüdische Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, das NS-Herrschaftssystem, Geschichte des Vermögensentzuges, Gedächtnisgeschichte und Geschichte des Antisemitismus.

Olaf Terpitz forscht und lehrt am Centrum für Jüdische Studien (CJS) der Universität Graz. Er studierte Slawistik und Germanistik in Leipzig, Moskau und Haifa und habilitierte 2016 an der Universität Wien. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen slawisch-jüdische Begegnungen, europäisch-jüdische Literatur, Übersetzung und Komparatistik.