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Title The Literature of destruction : Jewish responses to catastrophe / edited by David G. Roskies
Edition First edition
Published Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1988, c1989

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Description xi, 652 pages : music ; 26 cm
Contents Galut/exile. Mosaic curses
Hurban : the first destruction. Fall of Jerusalem -- By the rivers of Babylon -- Lamentations -- God will vindicate his honor -- Valley of the dry bones -- Battle of Gog -- God's former and future deeds
Kiddush hashem/martyrdom. Eleazar the priest -- Mother and her seven sons -- Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah -- Rabbinic martyrs -- Rabbi Akiba
Rabbinic theodicy in Midrash. Jeremiah and the patriarchs -- Abraham and the alphabet -- Moses and Rachel -- Fate of the survivors -- Irrational hatred of the goyim -- Children of the high priest -- Parable of the Ketubbah -- Akiba's laughter -- Ten Harugei Malkhut
History as liturgy in Ashkenaz. 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 -- Martyr's prayer / Isaiah Halevi Horowitz
The Spanish exile. Epistle on martyrdom / Moses Maimonides -- Fate of the exiles Lisbon massacre of 1506 ; The inquisition Causes of persecution / Solomon ibn Verga -- Know Judah and Israel / Judah ben David
The golden age of Polish Jewry. Introduction to the Abyss of Despair / Nathan Nata Hanover -- Massacres of the holy community of Nemirow / Nathan Nata Hanover -- Martyrs of Pavlysh
Protest and parody in tsarist Russia. Songs of the Cantonist era. 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
Oracles of Kishinev, 1903. Pogrom songs. 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
Anatomies of revolutionary violence. A shtetl / I.M. Weissenberg -- Wedding that came without its band / Sholem Aleichem -- Cross / Lamed Shapiro
World War I. Song of the mobilization -- Appeal to collect materials about the World War / I.L. Peretz, Yankev Dinezon and S. Ansky -- Destruction of Galicia / S. Ansky -- Tales of 1001 nights / Sholem Aleichem -- A night / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
The self under siege. Way out / Yosef Hayyim Brenner -- White challah / Lamed Shapiro -- Among refugees / David Bergelson -- And then there were none / Isaac Babel -- Rabbi's son / Isaac Babel
The rape of the shtetl. Smugglers / Oyzer Warshawski -- Revolutionary chapters / Hayyim Hazaz -- Months and days / Itsik Kipnis
Between the wars : prophecy and profanation. 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 Mole A song of omens / Natan Alterman
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 -- Ghetto in flames / Anonymous -- Yizkor, 1943 / Rachel Auerbach
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
Ghetto preachers. From Fire of holiness / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapiro -- Three sermons / Zelig Kalmanovitsh
The great lament. Lekh-lekho / Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh -- Song of the murdered Jewish people / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- Czech transport : a chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando / Zalmen Gradowski
Broken tablets. God of mercy / Kadia Molodowsky -- To God in Europe / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Last demon / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Sign / S.Y. Agnon
Return. Silver platter / Natan Alterman -- Battle bulletin / Abba Kovner -- Before the Kaddish / S.Y. Agnon
Maps. Jewish eastern Europe -- 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
Contemporaneous writings about the Holocaust
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [615]-621
Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- History -- Sources.
Jewish literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
Genre/Form History.
Literary collections.
Sources.
Author Roskies, David G., 1948-
LC no. 88002774
ISBN 0827603142