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This chapter focuses on Chaim Grade’s short story “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner.” Set before, during, but mostly after the Holocaust, the story’s central characters represent two opposite extremes that Jews had to confront in response to the Holocaust: the atheist who felt abandoned by God and the defender of the faith in the face of what felt like utter betrayal. This chapter discusses the ways in which Grade engages these two contrasting ideas to come together in complex ways.
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Reynolds, M.V. (2020). “I Sometimes Thought I Was Listening to Myself”: Identity-Deliberation After the Holocaust in Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”. In: Aarons, V., Lassner, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33428-4_9
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