Dvir Abramovich

The most famous poem of the Holocaust

Dvir Abramovich

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mentalities = Mentalites

The essay examines “Death Fugue” Paul Celan’s most celebrated and anthologised poem, and a work which has become the most famous w..

Holocaust representations in early Hebrew poetry: Uri Zvi Greenberg

Dvir Abramovich

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

Although he did not experience the systematic destruction of European Jewry directly, having escaped Poland in 1930 for Palestine,..

Coming to grips with the Shoah in Hebrew fiction

Dvir Abramovich

Journal article  |  2019  |  Mentalities = Mentalites

This essay examines several Holocaust tales written by Shulamith Hareven, was one of Israel’s pre-eminent authors whose stories c..

Israeli Holocaust Memory in a short story by Etgar Keret

Dvir Abramovich

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

This article examines “Shoes” a canonical short story by Israeli author Etgar Keret, part of the new wave of Israeli authors that ..

The Wounds and Pain of the Holocaust in Haim Gouri’s Filmmaking, Poetry and Fiction

Dvir Abramovich

Journal article  |  2019  |  Literature and aesthetics : the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics

This article sheds light on the Holocaust-centred oeuvre of the prolific poet, novelist, documentary filmmaker and journalist, who..

Fragments of Hell: Israeli Holocaust Literature

Dvir Abramovich

Book  |  2019

In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have b..

Fractured Voices and Tensions in a Divided Land

D Abramovich

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

From an idyllic life in pre-war Poland to the inferno of the Shoah.

D Abramovich

Journal article  |  2018  |  Mentalities = Mentalites

This essay examines Susan Fromberg Schaefer’s 1974’s Prize winning Anya, a Holocaust novel of incomparable richness and complexity..

Is There a God in the Heavens? Hayyim Nahman Bialik’s Meditation on the Silence of the Divine in ‘On the Slaughter’

D Abramovich

Journal article  |  2017  |  Literature and Aesthetics

The subject of this article is the haunting and now canonical ‘Al ha-shehitah’4 published in the magazine Hashiloach following the..

A Touch of Genius: Portraits and Literary Masterpieces

D Abramovich

Book  |  2017

In a collection of passionate, sparkling essays, one of Australia’s leading literary critics presents a fresh and exciting ode to ..