Oskar Schindler and His List

Schindler's List, the movie based on the nonfiction novel based on the life of the German businessman who saved scores of Jews from the Holocaust, has become a beginning study "text" for individuals and school, college, and independent learning classes alike.

This is a casebook to aid such study. It corrals two immediately postwar journalists' testimonies about the man Schindler, three pieces on Thomas Keneally's book, more than 140 pages of reviews of and reportage on Steven Spielberg's film, and more than 50 pages of journalistic punditry on the Holocaust that the movie's success provoked.

An annotated bibliography of Holocaust writings concludes the solid, popularly oriented (the heaviest reading here comes from The New Yorker) collection.



ISBN-13: 9780839764724
Author : Thomas Fensch, Herbert Stenhouse (Introduction)
Publisher: Eriksson, Paul S. Publisher
Publication date: 09/28/1995

Editorial Reviews - Booknews

Details of a 1949 interview with the now-famous Schindler open this collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews culled primarily from newspapers, magazines, and news services that illuminate the German businessman and the international effects of his story. The essays show how Thomas Keneally came to write Schindler's List, how Steven Speilberg came to make the book into a movie, and how uncovering Schindler's rescue of many Jewish lives has altered Holocaust awareness in our time. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From The Critics

"Schindler's List", the movie based on the nonfiction novel based on the life of the German businessman who saved scores of Jews from the Holocaust, has become a beginning study ""text" for individuals and school, college, and independent learning classes alike. This is a casebook to aid such study. It corrals two immediately postwar journalists' testimonies about the man Schindler, three pieces on Thomas Keneally's book, more than 140 pages of reviews of and reportage on Steven Spielberg's film, and more than 50 pages of journalistic punditry on the Holocaust that the movie's success provoked. An annotated bibliography of Holocaust writings concludes the solid, popularly oriented (the heaviest reading here comes from "The New Yorker") collection.