“Book of the Dead” is how the east-Galician writer Soma (Salomo) Morgenstern (1890−1976) described his monumental work on the Shoah Die Blutsäule − Zeichen und Wunder am Sereth. He published the text in exile in the United States between 1946 and 1952. Morgenstern refers to the book’s biblical flavor with the term “pillar of blood” in the title. In particular, the central scene of the book refers to exegetic literature: by presenting a m…