Darkness Casts No Shadow

This is a collection of moving stories that transcend the guesome realities of concentration camps.

Men in St. Louis are being murdered. Is it a serial killer, or something beyond reasonable explanation? For detective Billye Washington, uncovering the clues to the crimes will lead her to the edge of the impossible, and reveal hidden secrets of her own family lineage. Who is the mysterious Donovan Kane? And what is the link Billye has to the brother of one of the victims – a power she refers to as The Knowing? In this gripping first novel, the connections between life, death and beyond will be blurred, as Billye Washington attempts to stop the killing - and discovers that in between light and darkness, you cast no shadow.

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public interested in the representation of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and World War II in literature and the arts. Besides prose, it also considers poetry and theatrical plays from 1943 through 2018. An introduction to the historical events and cultural developments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech, and Slovak Republic, and their impact on the artistic output helps to contextualise the motif changes and fictional strategies that authors have been applying for decades. The publication is the result of long-term scholarly cooperation of specialists from four countries and several dozen academic centres.

In Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film, Picart and Frank challenge this classic horror frame--the narrative and visual borders used to demarcate monsters and the monstrous. After examining the way in which directors and producers of the most influential American Holocaust movies default to this Gothic frame, they propose that multiple frames are needed to account for evil and genocide.

The Companion to Jewish Culture - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present was first published in 1989. It is a single-volume encyclopedia containing biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1000 word each.