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""Well researched and insightful, this book closes a major gap in Holocaust studies by discussing the role of literature, and particularly that of poetry, as testimony in the spiritual lives of victims during as well as after the Holocaust."" --Leona Toker, Professor of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ""This inspiring study gives a new slant on the vexed question of literary art of the Holocaust era. Through detailed readings of works by such writers as Elie Wiesel and Wladyslaw Szlengel, Ida Fink and Miklós Radnóti, Feldman and Sicher compellingly argue that poetic rather than documentary testimony was the most 'radical outlet' for witnesses' grief and horror. This important book reaffirms the crucial role of poetry after Auschwitz."" --Sue Vice, Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK

A long overdue analysis and cogent discussion of Holocaust literature as literary testimony ... This is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century literature and history. * Choice * Well researched and insightful, this book closes a major gap in Holocaust studies by discussing the role of literature, and particularly that of poetry, as testimony in the spiritual lives of victims during as well as after the Holocaust. * Leona Toker, Professor of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel * This inspiring study gives a new slant on the vexed question of literary art of the Holocaust era. Through detailed readings of works by such writers as Elie Wiesel and Wladyslaw Szlengel, Ida Fink and Miklós Radnóti, Feldman and Sicher compellingly argue that poetic rather than documentary testimony was the most ‘radical outlet’ for witnesses’ grief and horror. This important book reaffirms the crucial role of poetry after Auschwitz. * Sue Vice, Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK * It is not only by focusing on poetry, but also by insisting on its evidentiary value, that Feldman and Sicher’s volume becomes a timely and original contribution to a relatively neglected area of Holocaust research, the study of verse. Poesis in Extremis is thoroughly researched, erudite, and engaging, with each chapter providing helpful historical and biographical contextualization, and deftly interweaving these paratextual details with close literary analysis. * Modern Language Review *

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Daniel Feldman is Senior Lecturer of English Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, with a focus on Holocaust literature and children’s literature. His scholarship has been recognized with the Children’s Literature Association Honor Article, the Children’s Literature Association Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Honor Award, and two research grants from the Israel Science Foundation. He is the author of a series of articles on the depiction of the Holocaust in Polish, German, Hebrew, and English poetry and prose. His research has appeared in Comparative Literature, Partial Answers, Children’s Literature in Education, Children’s Literature, Lion and the Unicorn, and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Efraim Sicher is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and is author of The Holocaust Novel (2005) and editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on Holocaust Novelists (2004). His most recent books include The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017), Re-envisioning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Israeli and Diaspora Culture (2021), and Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: Negotiating Identities and Spaces (2022).

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