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After the Holocaust

The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction

  • Hardback
  • 184 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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For readers seeking understanding of profound suffering

Addresses the challenge of finding meaning in trauma

You will learn coping practices from Holocaust survivors

This insightful study explores suffering through the lens of Job and Holocaust testimonies.

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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  • Title

    After the Holocaust

  • Author

    C. Fred Alford

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2009

  • Weight

    38g

  • Page Count

    184

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521766326

  • ISBN-10

    052176632X

  • Eden Code

    4575421