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Acknowledgments ix -- Preface xi -- Ch. 1 The Incredibility of the Holocaust 3 -- Ch. 2 Holocaust and Rebirth : Moshe Flinker, Nelly Sachs, and Abba Kovner 31 -- Ch. 3 Between Diaspora and Zion : Israeli Holocaust Fiction 73 -- Ch. 4 The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction : A Slow Awakening 121 -- Ch. 5 The Destruction and Resurrection of the Jews in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer 149 -- Ch. 6 Saul Bellow : A Jewish Farewell to the Enlightenment 171 -- Ch. 7 The Holocaust and the God of Israel 195 -- Ch. 8 A Dialogue of the Mind with Itself : Chaim Grade's Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner 233 -- Selected Bibliography 249 -- Index 253