Hidden children: the literature of hiding / Alan L. Berger -- An eye on a scrap of the world: Ida Fink's Hidden witnesses / Ellen S. Fine -- Jerzy Kosinski: did he or didn't he? / Harry James Cargas -- By the light of darkness: six major European writers who experienced the Holocaust / Hugh Nissenson -- Memory and collective identity: narrative strategies against forgetting in contemporary literary responses to the Holocaust / Gerhard Bach -- The rendition of memory in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl / Marianne M. Friedrich -- A speck of dust blown by the wind across land and desert: images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld / Gila Safran Naveh -- Writing to break the frozen seas within: the power of fiction in the writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein / Susan E. Nowak -- Art and atrocity in a post-9/11 world / Thane Rosenbaum -- Africanity and the collapse of American culture in the novels of Saul Bellow / Gloria L. Cronin -- The Jewish journey of Saul Bellow: from secular satirist to spiritual seeker / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Philip Roth and Jewish American literature at the millennium / Bonnie Lyons -- Malamud and Ozick: kindred Neshamas / Evelyn Avery -- Myth and addiction in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple / Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist -- Evolving paradigms of Jewish women in twentieth-century American Jewish fiction: through a male lens/through a female lens / S. Lillian Kremer -- After the melting pot: Jewish women writers and the man in the wrong clothes / Miriyam Glazer.