Alan L. Berger is Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, also published by SUNY Press; editor of Judaism in the Modern World; and coeditor of Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust.

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