Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination

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Penguin UK, Jan 31, 2013 - History - 144 pages

Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust

Winner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014

As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off.

Translated by Ralph Mandel.

'The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

 

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
A Prologue that Could Also Be an Epilogue
Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
Final Liquidation of the Family Camp
Auschwitz Ghostly Metropolis
Observations and Perplexities about Scenes in the Memory
Landscapes of a Private Mythology
Rivers which Cannot Be Crossed and the Gate of the Law
In Search of History and Memory
Three Chapters from the Diaries
Jewish Prague and the Great Death
Doctor Mengele Frozen in Time
Gods Grieving
Notes

Three Poems from the Brink of the Gas Chambers
Journey to the Satellite City of the Metropolis of Death
Copyright

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About the author (2013)

Otto Dov Kulka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1933. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bibliographic information

TitleLandscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
AuthorOtto Dov Kulka
Editionillustrated
PublisherPenguin UK, 2013
ISBN0718197011, 9780718197018
Length144 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust
  
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