David Roskies

David G. Roskies is a prominent scholar in the field of Jewish literature and the culture of Eastern European Jewry. He was born in 1948 in a displaced persons camp in Germany and grew up in Montreal. Roskies is a professor of Yiddish and Jewish literature, and he has served on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York since 1981. His academic work focuses extensively on the literary responses to the Holocaust and the preservation of Jewish cultural identity through literature. Roskies has authored and edited numerous books and articles, exploring themes of Jewish memory, Holocaust literature, and the Yiddish language. His works contribute significantly to the understanding of Jewish cultural resilience and the role of literature in documenting historical trauma. He is also known for his analysis of the works of major Jewish writers and the historical contexts in which they wrote, providing deep insights into the intellectual and cultural currents that shaped Jewish life in the 20th century.

Books

The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe