Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust Literature and Gulag Literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other.
Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, and others including Alexandr Solzhe.
Toker views these narratives and texts against the background of historical information about the Soviet and the Nazi regimes of repression.
Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust Literature and Gulag Literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other