Kis

A couple of extra readings that you guys might find interesting, and which also pair well with Kis, I think, (to read in your copious amounts of spare time :)) are A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Ida Fink) and Ordinary Men (Christopher Browning). Browning's book provides an interesting argument in history/theory and Fink's is an interesting fictional parallel of the Jewish experience (original is in Polish).

Although it's not a very original comment, I am interested in the references in Kis to the idea of extremity--ordinary people acting in extraordinary situations. How does this idea play into the problem of blame and responsibility, and more important, into Judaism in literature? Perhaps it's a thought to save for when we discuss Arendt, but I think it's also relevant in Kis's work.