THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish Disaster

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish Disaster</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><B>The </B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reading the </B></U></A><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Shaping the </B></U></A><A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B> Poetry of Abraham Moses Klein</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS"><U><B> and Human Rights</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>The </B></I><B>Shoah:</B><I><B> Gentile Responses to Jewish Disaster</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Gentile poems about the <I><B>Shoah</B></I><B>,</B> although scattered and distressingly few, have been powerful and incisive indictments of a Jewish disaster understood as a human catastrophe.   The level of outright anger---rather than grief or victimage---has been greater than that in Jewish texts, since  the writers have had the privilege of an exterior perspective, even though they have carefully dramatized the vicarious anxiety of those who could not share the burdens of pain and cultural loss.</div> <div>     Potentially deceitful efforts to impersonate the Jewish experience have been appropriately  limited; instead, Gentile texts have often sought to place the <I><B>Shoah</B></I> in a broad historical context of 20th century violations of human rights.   </div> <bR> <div> Readings from major Gentile poets: <I><B>W. H. Auden, May Sarton, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood, Peter Porter, Geoffrey Hill</B></I>, others; Jewish poems for comparative purposes.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>