The Literature of destruction : Jewish responses to...

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1988

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Galut/exile. Mosaic curses.

Hurban : the first destruction. Fall of Jerusalem --

By the rivers of Babylon --

God will vindicate his honor --

Valley of the dry bones --

God's former and future deeds.

Kiddush hashem/martyrdom. Eleazar the priest --

Mother and her seven sons --

Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah --

Rabbinic theodicy in Midrash. Jeremiah and the patriarchs --

Abraham and the alphabet --

Fate of the survivors --

Irrational hatred of the goyim --

Children of the high priest --

Parable of the Ketubbah --

Ten Harugei Malkhut.

History as liturgy in Ashkenaz. Crusade chronicle of Solomon bar Simson --

Pour out thy wrath --

Commemoration of martyrs --

There is none like you among the dumb / Isaac bar Shalom --

O law, consumed by fire / Meir of Rothenburg --

Martyr's prayer / Isaiah Halevi Horowitz.

The Spanish exile. Epistle on martyrdom / Moses Maimonides --

Fate of the exiles ; The Lisbon massacre of 1506 ; The inquisition ; Causes of persecution / Solomon ibn Verga --

Know Judah and Israel / Judah ben David.

The golden age of Polish Jewry. Introduction to the Abyss of Despair / Nathan Nata Hanover --

Massacres of the holy community of Nemirow / Nathan Nata Hanover --

Protest and parody in tsarist Russia. Songs of the Cantonist era. Streets flow with our tears ; For twenty miles I ran and ran ; O, merciful Father --

Songs of the Balta pogrom --

Shem and Japheth on the train / Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh --

Burned out / Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh.

Oracles of Kishinev, 1903. Pogrom songs. Kishinev pogrom ; Oh, have you read in the papers --

Have pity! / Simon Frug --

Proclamation of the Jewish labor Bund --

Proclamation of the Hebrew Writers' Union --

Upon the slaughter / Hayyim Nahman Bialik --

In the city of slaughter / Hayyim Nahman Bialik.

Anatomies of revolutionary violence. A shtetl / I.M. Weissenberg --

Wedding that came without its band / Sholem Aleichem --

Cross / Lamed Shapiro.

World War I. Song of the mobilization --

Appeal to collect materials about the World War / I.L. Peretz, Yankev Dinezon and S. Ansky --

Destruction of Galicia / S. Ansky --

Tales of 1001 nights / Sholem Aleichem --

A night / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern.

The self under siege. Way out / Yosef Hayyim Brenner --

White challah / Lamed Shapiro --

Among refugees / David Bergelson --

And then there were none / Isaac Babel --

Rabbi's son / Isaac Babel.

The rape of the shtetl. Smugglers / Oyzer Warshawski --

Revolutionary chapters / Hayyim Hazaz --

Months and days / Itsik Kipnis.

Between the wars : prophecy and profanation. Mound / Peretz Markish --

Masada / Isaac Lamdan --

My brothers, the sidelock-Jews / Uri Zvi Greenberg --

Fire! / Mordecai Gebirtig --

A stubborn back and nothing more / H. Leivick --

Memorial poems. Good night, wide world ; Wagons ; Ghetto song / Yankev Glatshteyn. Joy of the poor. Song to the wife of my youth ; Mole ; A song of omens / Natan Alterman.

Scribes of the Warsaw ghetto. Oyneg shabbes / Emanuel Ringelblum --

Ghetto folklore / Shimon Huberband --

House no. 21 / Peretz Opoczynski --

Chronicle of a single day / Leyb Goldin --

Scroll of agony / Chaim A. Kaplan --

4580 / Yehoshue Perle --

Ghetto in flames / Anonymous --

Yizkor, 1943 / Rachel Auerbach.

Ten ghetto poets. At the ghetto gate ; Ya'ales / Avrom Akselrod --

Rumkowski Chaim gives us bran-a / Yankev Herszkowicz --

Song of hunger ; Songs of the cold / Yitzhak Katzenelson --

I speak to you openly, child / Joseph Kirman --

Yisrolik / Leyb Rosental --

Birds are drowsing / Leah Rudnitsky --

Still, still ; Youth hymn ; Itsik Vittenberg / Shmerke Kaczerginski --

Silence, and a starry night ; Never say / Hirsh Glik --

Two gentlemen in the snow ; Counterattack / Wladyslaw Szlengel --

Faces in the mire ; In the cell ; Leaves of ash ; Because I was drinking wine ; A voice from the heart ; I lie in this coffin ; Pray ; A load of shoes ; To my child ; Last hour ; How? ; Kernels of wheat ; Song for the last ; Beneath the whiteness of your stars ; Charred pearls ; No sad songs please / Abraham Sutzkever.

Ghetto preachers. From Fire of holiness / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapiro --

Three sermons / Zelig Kalmanovitsh.

The great lament. Lekh-lekho / Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh --

Song of the murdered Jewish people / Yitzhak Katzenelson --

Czech transport : a chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando / Zalmen Gradowski.

Broken tablets. God of mercy / Kadia Molodowsky --

To God in Europe / Uri Zvi Greenberg --

Last demon / Isaac Bashevis Singer --

Return. Silver platter / Natan Alterman --

Battle bulletin / Abba Kovner --

Before the Kaddish / S.Y. Agnon.

Maps. Jewish eastern Europe --

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Compilation of no less than 100 powerful selections from a 2000 year tradition of Jewish literary responses to catastrophe. forming the Centerpiece of the volume are four chapters containing. Contemporaneous writings about the Holocaust.

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The Literature of destruction : Jewish responses to catastrophe

The Literature of destruction : Jewish responses to catastrophe / edited by David G. Roskies

The Literature of destruction

Jewish responses to catastrophe

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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