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Women Writing the Holocaust

For Lucille, who lives.

by Catherine A. Bernard
Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford University, Winter 1995
Copyright Catherine A. Bernard, 1995. Not to be cited without permission from the author.

“here in this transport
I am Eve
with Abel my son
if you see my older son
Cain son of Adam
tell him that I”Written in Pencil in a Sealed Boxcar
Dan Pagis (Tr. John Felstiner)

Introduction	1
A Feminist Critique of the Holocaust?	3
Lucille E.: the Gender Politics of Survival	11
Women Writing the Holocaust	26
Anne Frank: the Cultivation of the Inspirational Victim	37
Charlotte Salomon: “Life? or Theater?”	57
Mary Lowenthal Felstiner: Women, Modernity and the Holocaust	74
Conclusion	81
Works Cited	83

Abram Korn photo - from Abe's Story

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