Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture - Hardcover

This majestic work has a quality, almost unseen today, of being at the same time erudite and elegantly written. In this profound, subtle, and deeply moving book, Roskies lets us listen to the dialogue that the Nazis destroyed. It is hard to imagine a better way of keeping faith with those who died. Roskies's work, densely argued, richly allusive, exemplary in its far-ranging scholarship, is itself a deeply felt response to the Holocaust and its memories; an affirmation of continuities as well as violent endings. Eloquent and moving...daring and comprehensive...What Mr. Roskies has accomplished in "Against the Apocalypse" documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender

Looks at the Holocaust as a part of the history of Jewish persecutions and shows how literature and culture were used to bridge these catastrophes