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Title:

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history / edited and with an introduction by David G. Roskies ; foreword by Samuel D. Kassow.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Warsaw.--Warsaw.
Jews--Warsaw--Warsaw--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Warsaw--Warsaw--Personal narratives.
Warsaw (Poland)--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Roskies, David G., 1948- author of introduction. author of introduction.
Kassow, Samuel D., author of foreword.
Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Notes:

"A companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization" Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Oyneg Shabes / Emanuel Ringelblum -- Telephone / Władysław Szlengel -- I speak to your openly, child / Josef Kirman -- Ghetto folklore / Shimon Huberband -- House no. 21 / Peretz Opoczynski -- Chronicle of a single day / Leyb Goldin -- From scroll of agony / Chaim A. Kaplan -- Charcoal and watercolor sketches (1939-42) / Gela Seksztajn -- The little smuggler / Henryka Łazowert -- Hershek / Stepania Gradzińska -- Song of hunger and songs of the cold / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- From holy fire / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira -- From the Notebooks and diary of the great deportation / Abraham Lewin -- Last testament / Israel Lichtenstein -- What can I possibly say and ask for at this moment? / Gela Seksztajn -- 4580 / Yehoshue Perle -- Things and counterattack / Władysław Szlengle -- The ghetto in flames / "Maor" -- Yizkor, 1943 / Rachel Auerbach

Summary:

Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, this anthology comprises reportage, diaries, prose, poems, jokes, and sermons that capture the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices-young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists-and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as "a civilization responding to its own destruction," these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Jews in real time, against time, and for all time.

ISBN:

0300236727
9780300236729

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1052876012

LCCN:

2018958129

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)