- Summary
- In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundreds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Samuel D. Kassow tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people. --from publisher description.
- Series
- The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies
Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kassow, Samuel D.
- Published
- New York : Vintage Books, 2009
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition
- Contents
-
From "Bichuch" to Warsaw
Borochov's disciple
History for the people
Organizing the community: self-help and relief
A band of comrades
The different voices of Polish Jewry
Traces of life and death: texts from the archive
The tidings of job
A historian's final mission.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Mazal Holocaust Collection.
- Notes
-
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, in 2007"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From "Bichuch" to Warsaw -- Borochov's disciple -- History for the people -- Organizing the community: self-help and relief -- A band of comrades -- The different voices of Polish Jewry -- Traces of life and death: texts from the archive -- The tidings of job -- A historian's final mission.
