01578cam a22001934a 4500020002100000020001800021082002300039100002200062245004600084260005000130300002900180504006400209520088700273650007201160650002701232650005001259650002801309856004701337  a0521641748(hbk.)  a978052101269000a940.5318072bCLE-R1 aClendinnen, Inga.10aReading the Holocaust /cInga Clendinnen.  aNew York:bCambridge University Press,c1999.  aix, 227 p.:bill., map ;  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.  aMore than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust, first published in 2002, challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories and memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes implicated in the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, her book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible from the unthinkable. 0aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)xHistoriography.vPersonal narratives 0aHistory and criticism. 0aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 0aJudaism and literature.42uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b2k5-aa