Contents Foreword by Elie Wiesel Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction The Second-Generation Witness: Inheriting the Holocaust Particularism and Universalism Children of Survivors and Children of Job Theological Sequelae Universal Questions The Search for Tikkun Chapter 2 From Pathology to Theology: The Emergence of the Second-Generation Witness The American Second Generation: A Brief History A New Generation of Jewish Writers and Filmmakers Post-Auschwitz Covenant Theology Elie Wiesel and the Additional Covenant Irving Greenberg and the Voluntary Covenant M Emil L. Fackenheim and the Search for a Post-Aushwitz Tikkun Olam Richard L. Rubenstein: "God after the Death of God" Chapter 3 Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Particularism Damaged Goods Summer Long-a-Coming Maus Short Stories: A Biographical Note Stories of an Imaginary Childhood and While The Messiah Tarries Dancing at the Club Holocaust and Forms of Captivity and Escape Elijah Visible Conclusion Chapter 4 Second-Generation Novels and Short Stories: Jewish Universalism The Flood White Lies Dancing on Tisha B'Av and Winter Eyes Conclusion Chapter 5 Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Particularism Kaddish A Generation Apart Breaking the Silence Half-Sister, Everything's For You, and In Memory Angst The Docudramas: The Dr. John Haney Sessions and Open Secrets Conclusion Chapter 6 Second-Generation Documentaries and Docudramas: Jewish Universalism As If It Were Yesterday Weapons Of The Spirit So Many Miracles Voices From The Attic Conclusion Chapter 7 Whither The Future? Working through the Holocaust Riders towards the Dawn Children of Job and Covenantal Judaism Notes Index.
Children of Job : American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust