"Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto" by David G. Roskies

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto Writing Our History David G. Roskies, Samuel D. Kassow

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 11 Jun 2019
ISBN:: 9780300236729
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 280 pages: 210 x 140mm
Illustrations:: 7 b-w illus.

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A powerful and original compilation of writings from the Jewish captives of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II

Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings 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, this anthology comprises reportage, diaries, prose, poems, jokes, and sermons that capture 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 Jews in real time, against time, and for all time.

David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the editor of The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky. He lives in New York City.