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To the edge of sorrow
- Title
- To the edge of sorrow / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
- Author
- Apelfeld, Aharon
- Publication
- New York : Schocken Books, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Schoffman, Stuart
- Description
- 291 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes its goals without losing its moral compass. And so when they're not raiding peasants' homes for food and supplies, or training with the weapons taken from the soldiers they have ambushed and killed, the partisans read books of faith and philosophy that they have rescued from abandoned Jewish homes, and they draw strength from the women, the elderly, and the remarkably resilient orphaned children they are protecting. When they hear about the advances being made by the Soviet Army, the partisans prepare for what they know will be a furious attack on their compound by the retreating Germans. In the heartbreaking aftermath, the survivors emerge from the forest to bury their dead, care for their wounded, and grimly confront a world that is surprised by their existence - and profoundly unwelcoming."--Amazon.
- Uniform Title
- ʻAd ḥod ha-tsaʻar. English
- Alternative Title
- ʻAd ḥod ha-tsaʻar.
- Subjects
- Ukraine
- War fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- German Occupation of Ukraine > (Ukraine : > 1941-1944)
- 1939-1945
- Historical fiction
- World War > (1939-1945)
- FICTION / Jewish
- Jewish Holocaust > (1939-1945)
- Ukraine > History > German occupation, 1941-1944 > Fiction
- Fiction
- FICTION / Biographical
- Insurgency > Fiction
- Survival > Fiction
- Hebrew fiction
- History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction
- Jewish soldiers > Fiction
- War stories
- World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- War stories.
- Hebrew fiction.
- War fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2614
- ISBN
- 9780805243420
- 0805243429
- 9780805243437 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019011548
- 40029780449
- OCLC
- 1028180932
- Author
- Apelfeld, Aharon, author.
- Title
- To the edge of sorrow / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
- Publisher
- New York : Schocken Books, [2020]
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Schoffman, Stuart, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029780449
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2614