Translating Holocaust Literature

Contributions by Gaetan Pégny Contributions by Stephanie Munyard Contributions by Bettina Stumm Contributions by Rosa Marta Gómez Pato Contributions by Alan Turnbull Contributions by Bastian Reinert Contributions by Alana Fetcher Contributions by Anna Nunan Contributions by Tara Bergin Contributions by Rita Horvath Edited by Peter Arnds

Book cover: Translating Holocaust Literature

Extent: 156 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2015)

ISBN: 9783847105015

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust – whether as fiction, memoir, testimony – a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.


In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi said “our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man.” If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust–whether as fiction, memoir, testimony–a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.

  • Contributions by Gaetan Pégny
  • Contributions by Stephanie Munyard
  • Contributions by Bettina Stumm
  • Contributions by Rosa Marta Gómez Pato
  • Contributions by Alan Turnbull
  • Contributions by Bastian Reinert
  • Contributions by Alana Fetcher
  • Contributions by Anna Nunan
  • Contributions by Tara Bergin
  • Contributions by Rita Horvath
  • Edited by Peter Arnds