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by Victoria Aarons (Editor), Holli G. Levitsky (Editor), Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor)
This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II.
Author Biography
Victoria Aarons is distinguished professor of literature at Trinity University where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. She has published thirteen books, including Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory and Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives, recipient of a 2024 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award.
Holli Levitsky, Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, has authored and edited Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience; New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Reading and Teaching; The Literature of Exile and Displacement, and Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, among other writings.
Hilene Flanzbaum taught American, Jewish-American and Holocaust literature for over 30 years. She has edited three collections, The Americanization of the Holocaust, The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, and The Holocaust Across Borders.
