Messengers from the Dead: Literature of the Holocaust - Irving Halperin - 1970 The Westminster Press Hardback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as: • Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or small tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside Jacket design by Michael Louridas Blurb: “ MESSENGERS FROM THE DEAD Literature of the Holocaust by IRVING HALPERIN This book is concerned with significant eyewitness accounts, diaries, and novels written by the survivors of the European Holocaust, 1933-1945. They add an important chapter to the spiritual and psychological history of our time. What emerges from them is the dominant theme of spiritual resistance-how men deal with extreme suffering and the place of religious faith in man's deepest needs. This literature is not a bid for sympathy or an attempt to teach "lessons" to the living, but rather a challenge to the reader to ask himself, man, and God such Jobian questions as: Why did God let all that suffering happen? How was it poss