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Beyond Imagination: Canadians Write About the Holocaust is a 1995 anthology edited
Beyond Imagination: Canadians Write About the Holocaust is a 1995 anthology bringing together Canadian literary and personal responses to the Holocaust. Its contents include reflections, poetry, fiction, and survivor-related narratives. Across these forms, the collection addresses memory, loss, responsibility, and the continuing consequences of the Holocaust. Most of the pieces were written especially for this collection, giving it the character of a deliberate gathering of contemporary Canadian responses rather than a simple retrospective selection.
Jerry S. Grafstein’s contribution is chiefly editorial: he brings these varied voices and genres into a shared framework. The collection was conceived as both an act of remembrance and a Canadian cultural response to the Holocaust. An afterword by historian Alan Bullock extends the book’s consideration of its subject, while the range of included forms allows personal and literary approaches to stand alongside one another.
The anthology’s significance lies in its combination of remembrance and cultural reflection. It presents the Holocaust not only as a historical catastrophe, but also as a subject that prompts continuing questions about memory, responsibility, and loss within Canadian writing. Its mixed forms may help readers consider how poetry, fiction, reflection, and survivor-related narrative offer different ways of responding to an event whose consequences continue to be examined.
A collector might care about this work for the literary and artistic conversation it preserves: Canadian writers addressing the Holocaust through several genres, with many contributions created specifically for the anthology. It offers a focused record of how remembrance can move between personal narrative, imaginative writing, and reflection. For readers interested in Holocaust literature, Canadian cultural responses, or anthologies that bring distinct modes of expression together, the book has clear interpretive interest.
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Beyond Imagination: Canadians Write About the Holocaust is a 1995 anthology edited by Jerry S. Grafstein, with an afterword by noted historian Alan Bullock. It brings together Canadian literary and personal responses to the Holocaust, including reflections, poetry, fiction and survivor-related narratives that examine memory, loss, responsibility and the continuing consequences of the Holocaust.
The jacket states that most of the works were written especially for this collection. The book was conceived as both a work of remembrance and a Canadian cultural response to the Holocaust, with proceeds from its original sale intended to help endow a Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.
This McClelland & Stewart hardcover is a first edition, first printing and retains its dust jacket. It is double signed by Jerry S. Grafstein and Alan Bullock on the title page. A personalized presentation inscription dated 1995 also appears on the page; the recipient's name is not fully legible in the supplied photograph.
The seller grades the copy Very Good. The jacket shows light handling and minor visible edge/corner wear, while the photographed title and copyright pages are intact and legible. Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the description.
