Text in the Face of Destruction: Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Reconsidered - Tapa dura

Text in the Face of Destruction: Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Reconsidered

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Hardcover, 296 pages, index, NOT ex-library. Book looks unread, pages still smell new. Minor external shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The author analyzes human documents: diaries, chronicles, letters, essays, memoirs, sermons, prayers - written down by the dying, shut in by the walls of the ghetto, hidden on the Aryan side, thrown out from a transport to a camp; all of them already condemned. The author makes these texts into a guide to the daily life of the ghetto to the end. In these texts, arising there and then, Jacek Leociak examines the forms of discourse which struggled with inexpressibility: life in extreme situations, experience in the shadow of the Holocaust. It is not possible to understand the Holocaust. But it is also not possible to be silent about it. It is for this reason that the work of Jacek Leociak, which continually struggles with the question: what can text mean in the face of destruction, provides us with an invaluable reading. This work is not a lament, although it keenly analyzes a lament. It is also not only a study classifying the varieties of discourse of 'personal documents' of the ghetto. It is rather a clean and subtle, masterly carried-out workshop, an attempt at building bonds with that which the dying witnessed. (Professor Alina Brodzka-Wald) -- Contents: Introduction; Part I. 1 Searching for a Formula 2 About the Authors, Place and Time [Who Wrote; Place and Circumstances of Writing] 3 Fate of the Texts 4 Why Did They Write? ["Write! Note things down!"; "To sound the alarm and shock the conscience of the world"; "For a future tribunal" - "For revenge"; "To leave a permanent trace behind"; Rooted in Tradition]; Part II 1 Between a Personal and Impersonal Manner of Narration [Jakub - Hirszfeld - Lewin - Perechodnik; Letters of the Jews from Plonsk; Horowitz - Sznapman - Puterman; Kula - Ringelblum - Landau; Czerniakow; Commentaries - Reports - Studies] 2 Describing the Ghetto [The Window; People; Death; Corpses; Summing up] 3 On Religious Discourse [Religious Life Under the Occupation; Lamentation of Karol Rotgeber; Martyrologium of Rabbi Shimon Huberband; Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira; Summing up; Rotgeber; Huberband; Shapira]; Concluding Remarks; Bibliographical Abbreviations; Personal Documents of the Warsaw Ghetto; Bibliography; Index. Nº de ref. del artículo: 007442

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