ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows how authors writing about the Holocaust choose the particular genre to sound their voice as a form of testimony, and in doing so, account for the time the world collapsed into an “anti-world.” It addresses different phases in which time, home, and relationships came under assault during the Holocaust. The book analyzes the collapse of relationships and home, as portrayed in the two Yiddish short stories by Rokhl Korn and Frume Halpern. Steven Jacobs reiterates what several scholars of Holocaust literature have noted: to write about the Holocaust is to write as one who is bearing witness to the atrocity, as one who is testifying and speaking for the silent ones – the millions whose voices will never speak, testify, nor bear witness.
