@article{1450892,
      recid = {1450892},
      author = {Goldwyn, Adam J.},
      title = {Homer, Humanism, Holocaust : Jewish responses to the  crisis of enlightenment during world war ii.},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and  after the Second World War reinterpreted Homers epics, the  Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime  experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek  genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.  The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt,  Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max  Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to  understand the collapse of European civilization and the  Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts  and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new  post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the  reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish  child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Helene Cixous and  writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel  Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of  grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first  century. Adam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English  at North Dakota State University, USA. He is the author of  Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the  Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and  Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves,  Prisoners, and Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and  co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural  Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan,  2016). .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450892},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11473-1},
}