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Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Reflections on Memory and Imagination
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English
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2013
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In a life dedicated to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust, Otto Dov Kulka has set to one side his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical in a devastating, at times poetic, account of the concentration camps and the private mythology he constructed.
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Kulka Otto Dov :
Otto Dov Kulka is Rosenbloom Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Sir Ian Kershaw:
This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Otto Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be read.
This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Otto Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be read.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
xi - Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
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1. A Prologue that Could Also Be an Epilogue
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2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
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3. Final Liquidation of the ‘Family Camp’
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4. Autumn 1944: Auschwitz – Ghostly Metropolis
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5. Observations and Perplexities about Scenes in the Memory
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6. Three Poems from the Brink of the Gas Chambers
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7. Journey to the Satellite City of the Metropolis of Death
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8. Landscapes of a Private Mythology
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9. Rivers which Cannot be Crossed and the ‘Gate of the Law’
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10. In Search of History and Memory
82 - Three Chapters from the Diaries
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11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death
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12. Doctor Mengele Frozen in Time
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13. God’s Grieving
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Appendix: Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp: Jewish Social History in the Holocaust Period and its Ultimate Limits
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List of Illustrations
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Notes
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March 19, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674075092
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139
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48 halftones
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9780674075092
Keywords for this book
HISTORY / Holocaust
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