TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alford,C.Fred
TI  - After the Holocaust: the Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the path to affliction 
SN  - 9780511650758
AV  - BM645.S9 A44 2009
U1  - 296.3/1174 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Levi, Primo.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - fast
KW  - Bible
KW  - Job
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Ijob (Buch)
KW  - swd
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Interviews
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Leid
KW  - Grenzsituation
KW  - Judenvernichtung
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index; Introduction -- Job, transitional space, and the ruthless use of the object -- Holocaust testimonies : after the silence of Job -- Sisyphus, Levi, and Job at Auschwitz -- Conclusion : beyond the silence of Job
N2  - The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, an account of meaningful suffering in a God-drenched world, to the work of Primo Levi, who attempted to find meaning in the Holocaust through absolute clarity of insight, he concludes that neither strategy works well in today's world. More effective are the day-to-day coping practices of some survivors. Drawing on testimonies of survivors from the Fortunoff Video Archives, Alford also applies the work of Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot to his examination of a topic that has been and continues to be central to human experience
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