Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history /
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history /
edited and with an introduction by David G. Roskies ; foreword by Samuel D. Kassow.
- New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 247 pages) : illustrations
"A companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization."
Includes bibliographical references.
Oyneg Shabes / Telephone / I speak to your openly, child / Ghetto folklore / House numbers 21 / Chronicle of a single day / From Scroll of agony / Charcoal and watercolor sketches (1939-42) / The little smuggler / Hershek / Song of hunger and songs of the cold / From Holy fire / From the Notebooks and diary of the great deportation / Last testament / What can I possibly say and ask for at this moment? / 4580 / Things and counterattack / The ghetto in flames / Yizkor, 1943 / Emanuel Ringelblum -- Władysław Szlengel -- Josef Kirman -- Shimon Huberband -- Peretz Opoczynski -- Leyb Goldin -- Chaim A. Kaplan -- Gela Seksztajn -- Henryka Łazowert -- Stepania Gradzińska -- Yitzhak Katzenelson -- Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira -- Abraham Lewin -- Israel Lichtenstein -- Gela Seksztajn -- Yehoshue Perle -- Władysław Szlengle -- "Maor" -- Rachel Auerbach.
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures 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 Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.
9780300245356
Oyneg Shabes (Group)
Jews--Persecutions--History--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.
Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Electronic Books.
DS134 / .V653 2019
"A companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization."
Includes bibliographical references.
Oyneg Shabes / Telephone / I speak to your openly, child / Ghetto folklore / House numbers 21 / Chronicle of a single day / From Scroll of agony / Charcoal and watercolor sketches (1939-42) / The little smuggler / Hershek / Song of hunger and songs of the cold / From Holy fire / From the Notebooks and diary of the great deportation / Last testament / What can I possibly say and ask for at this moment? / 4580 / Things and counterattack / The ghetto in flames / Yizkor, 1943 / Emanuel Ringelblum -- Władysław Szlengel -- Josef Kirman -- Shimon Huberband -- Peretz Opoczynski -- Leyb Goldin -- Chaim A. Kaplan -- Gela Seksztajn -- Henryka Łazowert -- Stepania Gradzińska -- Yitzhak Katzenelson -- Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira -- Abraham Lewin -- Israel Lichtenstein -- Gela Seksztajn -- Yehoshue Perle -- Władysław Szlengle -- "Maor" -- Rachel Auerbach.
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures 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 Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.
9780300245356
Oyneg Shabes (Group)
Jews--Persecutions--History--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.
Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Sources.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Electronic Books.
DS134 / .V653 2019