Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roskies, David G., 1948-
• Kassow, Samuel D.
• Ringelblum-Archiv.

Description

xxv, 247 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works 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, 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 stime, and for all time"--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Writing our history

Subject

• Oyneg Shabes (Group)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1900-1999
• 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
• Jews > Persecutions
• Jews
• Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
• Warsaw (Poland) > History > 20th century > Sources
• Poland > Warsaw > Getto warszawskie
• Poland > Warsaw

Genre/Form

• Sources.
• Biography.
• History.
• Personal narratives.
• Personal narratives – Jewish.

Note

• "A companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

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 / Stefania Grodzieńska -- 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 Szlengel -- The ghetto in flames / "Maor" -- Yizkor, 1943 / Rachel Auerbach.

Call Number

JFD 19-504

ISBN

• 9780300236729
• 0300236727

LCCN

2018958129

OCLC

1052876012

Title

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

Publisher

New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Roskies, David G., 1948- editor.

Kassow, Samuel D., writer of foreword.

Ringelblum-Archiv.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-504