Author: Chaim Aron Kaplan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Chaim Aron Kaplan, born in 1880 in Belarus, wrote his "Megillat yissurin" ("Scroll of Suffering") in the Warsaw ghetto. A Zionist who emphasized the role of history in Jewish culture, he wrote his diary in Hebrew for future historians, but lost his belief in God and feared that his diary may serve no purpose if the entire Jewish nation is annihilated. He was killed in Treblinka in 1942.
Author: Abraham Lewin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631162155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Offers a description of daily life for Jews sealed off by the Nazis in a large section of Warsaw
Author: Mary Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780744463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the daily deprivations and mass deportations, but also the resistance and resilience of the inhabitants, their secret societies, and the youth at the forefront of the fight against Nazi terror. Above all The Diary of Mary Berg is a uniquely personal story of a life-loving girl’s encounter with unparalleled human suffering, and offers an extraordinary insight into one of the darkest chapters of human history.
Author: Adam Czerniaków
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566632300
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Adam Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat-a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghetto. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto's terminal agony.
Author: Śimḥah Rotem
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300093766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Recounts the struggle against the Nazi takeover of Warsaw and provides an account of the author's activities as head courier for the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organization.
Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.
Author: Raul Hilberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493083767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942—on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat—a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored “mayor” of the Warsaw Ghetto. His personal dealings with the German authorities bring to this daily record of events a depth of knowledge, accuracy of detail, and panorama of view that was possible to no other participant in the epic prelude to the final doom of the largest captive Jewish community in Eastern Europe. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto’s terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust.
Author: Adam Czerniaków
Publisher: Scarborough House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Contains primary source material.
Author: Ethel Gross
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Jewish First Wife, Divorced collects the correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and his Jewish first wife, Ethel Gross. These letters--flirtatious and fond, quietly argumentative and terse--reveal the significant influence of Progressivism on Harry Hopkins's political ideology and also the unique challenges for a professionally ambitious Jewish immigrant woman living in the early twentieth century.
Author: Mitchell First
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461629128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The author writes: “According to Seder Olam Rabbah, the work that forms the basis for almost all rabbinic chronology, the .period from the defeat of the Babylonians by the Medeo-Persians until the beginning of Greek rule, encompassed 52 years and spanned the reigns of three Persian kings. According to the chronology that is universally accepted by historians today (conventional chronology), this period of Persian rule over the land of Israel encompassed 207 years (539 to 332 BCE) and during this period more than ten Persian kings reigned. “This discrepancy between the traditional Jewish chronology and conventional chronology has not gone unnoticed. The purpose of this study is to collect and categorize the variety of Jewish responses to this discrepancy, both by Jewish scholars and rabbinic authorities. Part I provides an introduction to the discrepancy. Part II contains the earliest Jewish responses to the discrepancy. In the major part of the study, Part III, the responses to the discrepancy from the time of Azariah de Rossi (16th century) to the present time are collected and categorized. This unified collection and categorization of the many responses will enable students and scholars to have easy access to what has been written by Jewish scholars and rabbinic authorities about the discrepancy and will facilitate scholarly evaluation of the responses. “Part IV is an evaluation of the responses’ attempts to answer the fundamental question raised by the discrepancy. Part V presents observations on the rabbinic responses. Part VI is a summary and conclusion.”
