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Geoffrey H. Hartman
1929–2016
Geoffrey H. Hartman was born in Frankfurt and was sent to England during World War II. He was an American literary theorist and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Yale University. A poet, editor, and theorist, he was the author of numerous books and articles on midrash, William Wordsworth, and the Holocaust.
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Language and Culture after the Holocaust
The concept of a resurrected culture after Auschwitz is illusory and contradictory, and every construct that still comes into being has to pay a bitter price because of that. But since the world…