Selected critical studies (in chronological order)Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Halperin, Irving. Messengers from the Dead: Literature of the Holocaust. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970.
Langer, Lawrence. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Rosenfeld, Alvin. A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
Mintz, Alan. Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Roskies, David G.Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Lang, Berel, ed. Writing and the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988.
Skloot, Robert. The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
Young, James. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Aaron, Frieda. Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in Ghettos and Concentration Camps. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Felman, Shoshana and Laub, Dori. Testimony: Crises in Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Hartman, Geoffrey. The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Horowitz, Sara. Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Gubar, Susan. Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Kremer, S. Lillian, ed. Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Rosen, Alan. Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Suleiman, Susan. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Kassow, Samuel. Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidimensional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Spargo, R. Clifton and Ehrenreich, Robert M., eds. After Representation: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Lothe, Jakob, Suleiman, Susan Rubin, and Phelan, James, eds. After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Roskies, David and Diamant, Naomi. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013.