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CHILDREN WITH A STAR Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Debórah Dwork New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991, xlvi + 354 pp., $25.00
Focusing on the children of the Holocaust and their harrowing experiences under the Nazis, this poignant work uses the oral histories of those children who survived and provides a new perspective describing their psychological perceptions while hiding in ghettos and in the camps. Professor Dwork tells a gripping tale of children and horror; her solidly researched book strips away any rationalizations that the victims of Nazism somehow “allowed” or “deserved” their punishment.
RICKIE by Frederic Flach New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990, x + 275 pp., $18.95
Written by a noted psychiatrist, this is a deeply moving story of a loving parent's ordeal in coping with the mental breakdown, psychiatric hospitalization, and recovery of a child. Well written and thoughtful and enriched with Rickie's own recollection of her illness, it goes far beyond being simply an inspirational book.
JULIA KRISTEVA by John Lechte Critics of the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 1990, xv + 230 pp., $55.00, $15.95 paper
Written by a former student of Julia Kristeva, this excellent critical introduction to her work should be of interest to students of literature, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. This is the first full length study of this major thinker.