| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 652 pages : music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [615]-621. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Galut/exile. The mosaic curses. |
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Hurban : the first destruction. The fall of Jerusalem -- By the rivers of Babylon -- Lamentations -- God will vindicate his honor -- The valley of the dry bones -- The battle of Gog -- God's former and future deeds. |
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Kiddush hashem/martyrdom. Eleazar the priest -- The mother and her seven sons -- Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah -- Rabbinic martyrs -- Rabbi Akiba. |
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Rabbinic theodicy in Midrash. Jeremiah and the patriarchs -- Abraham and the alphabet -- Moses and Rachel -- The fate of the survivors -- The irrational hatred of the goyim -- The children of the high priest -- The parable of the Ketubbah -- Akiba's laughter -- The ten Harugei Malkhut. |
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History as liturgy in Ashkenaz. The 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 -- The martyr's prayer / Isaiah Halevi Horowitz. |
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The Spanish exile. The epistle on martyrdom / Moses Maimonides -- The fate of the exiles ; The Lisbon massacre of 1506 ; The inquisition ; The causes of persecution / Solomon ibn Verga -- Know Judah and Israel / Judah ben David. |
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The golden age of Polish Jewry. Introduction to the Abyss of Despair / Nathan Nata Hanover -- The massacres of the holy community of Nemirow / Nathan Nata Hanover -- The martyrs of Pavlysh. |
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Protest and parody in tsarist Russia. Songs of the Cantonist era. The 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. |
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Oracles of Kishinev, 1903. Pogrom songs. The 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. |
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Anatomies of revolutionary violence. A shtetl / I.M. Weissenberg -- The wedding that came without its band / Sholem Aleichem -- The cross / Lamed Shapiro. |
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World War I. Song of the mobilization -- Appeal to collect materials about the World War / I.L. Peretz, Yankev Dinezon and S. Ansky -- The destruction of Galicia / S. Ansky -- Tales of 1001 nights / Sholem Aleichem -- A night / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. |
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The self under siege. The way out / Yosef Hayyim Brenner -- White challah / Lamed Shapiro -- Among refugees / David Bergelson -- And then there were none / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi's son / Isaac Babel. |
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The rape of the shtetl. Smugglers / Oyzer Warshawski -- Revolutionary chapters / Hayyim Hazaz -- Months and days / Itsik Kipnis. |
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Between the wars : prophecy and profanation. The 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 ; The mole ; A song of omens / Natan Alterman. |
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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 -- The ghetto in flames / Anonymous -- Yizkor, 1943 / Rachel Auerbach. |
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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. |
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Ghetto preachers. From Fire of holiness / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapiro -- Three sermons / Zelig Kalmanovitsh. |
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The great lament. Lekh-lekho / Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh -- The song of the murdered Jewish people / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- The Czech transport : a chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando / Zalmen Gradowski. |
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Broken tablets. God of mercy / Kadia Molodowsky -- To God in Europe / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- The last demon / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The sign / S.Y. Agnon. |
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Return. The silver platter / Natan Alterman -- Battle bulletin / Abba Kovner -- Before the Kaddish / S.Y. Agnon. |
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Maps. Jewish eastern Europe -- The Warsaw ghetto. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Contemporaneous writings about the Holocaust. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Persecutions -- History -- Sources.
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Jewish literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Roskies, David G., 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Literature of destruction. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1988, c1989 (OCoLC)569325855 |
| ISBN |
0827603142 |
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9780827603141 |
