The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy.

1. About the Holocaust Novel 2. Survivors: "If It Is a Novel, It Is Not About Majdanek..." 3. The Jewish American Post-Holocaust Novel: Imagining the Unimaginable 4. Holocaust Fictions, or Fictional Holocausts 5. The "Second Generation": The Vicarious Witness 6. Postmodernist "Holocausts"

Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is author of Beyond Marginality:Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust,Style andStructure in the Prose of Isaac Babel, Jews in RussianLiterature After the October Revolution, and BreakingCrystal: Writing and Memory After Auschwitz.