Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature.
The University of Chicago Press, 1980. First printing. With a foreword by Alfred Kazin. 0226233359 xiii/262 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in mauve cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket, with price of $15 on front flap, exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in "By Words Alone," is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future."