Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
American-born Israeli literary scholar and professor emerita of comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for influential work on modern Jewish literature, exile, and Holocaust representation, including the books By Words Alone and Booking Passage.
Books
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1. By Words Alone
The Holocaust in Literature
A study of Holocaust literature that examines how poetry, fiction, and testimony struggle to bear witness to catastrophe, probing both the necessity and the peril of rendering atrocity into art. Tracing the evolution from immediate survivor accounts to later imaginative reconstructions, it evaluates the possibilities and limits of language, the tension between memory and myth, and the ethical responsibilities of writers and readers. Through close readings across multiple languages and traditions, it maps the cultural stakes of commemoration and warns against aestheticization that can obscure historical truth.
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