Portraits in Literature : the Jews of Poland : an anthology /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Ben-Zvi, Hava. |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | European Jewish Publications Society. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Middlesex, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Vallentine Mitchell ; [London] : In association with the European Jewish Publication Society, [2011] |
| Series: | Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies (Wellesley College)
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| Local Note: | Gift of the Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies. |
Table of Contents:
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Praise for Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland
- Introduction
- The Jews of Poland in Legendary Tradition
- Part I. Our World of Yesterday
- 1. The Rebel
- Excerpts from a Novel
- 2. The Mother's Reward
- Excerpts from a Novel
- 3. 'Olke'
- A Poem
- 4. 'The Tale of the Washtub'
- A Poem
- 5. The Teacher Reb Mendele
- A Short Story
- 6. Time of Peace
- A Memoir
- 7. The Bride
- Excerpt from a Novel
- 8. The Wedding Night
- Excerpt from a Novel
- 9. A Jew in the Polish Army
- A Memoir
- 10. The Circumcision That Wasn't. A Jewish Folk Tale
- 11. The Recipe of Rabbi Yenuka of Stolin. A Jewish Folk Tale
- 12. My First Day in the Orphanage
- A Memoir about Janusz Korczak
- 13. The Lamed Vovnik
- A Short Story Polish Voices
- 14. Mendel Gdanski
- A Short Story (Selections)
- 15. Links in a Chain
- A Short Story (Selections)
- 16. Ziselman of Honcharska Street
- A Memoir
- 17. Rivka
- A Memoir
- Part II. Years of Flame and Fury
- The Ghettos
- 18. Yossel Rakover's Appeal to God
- A Short Story
- 19. 'And the Earth Rebelled'
- A Poem
- 20. A Shomer Pesach in the Ghetto
- A Memoir
- 21. Two Eyewitnesses: An Unknown Woman and Adam Sokolski
- 22. Eyewitness Testimonies. Siedlce, Poland, 1942
- 23. From the Diary of a Young Shomeret
- A Memoir
- 24. 'Cracow Autumn'
- A Poem
- 25. 'Kaddish'
- A Poem
- Children
- 26. 'The First Ones'
- A Poem: Excerpt
- 27. How Granny Saved Helenka From the Germans
- A Memoir
- 28. We Will Not Hand Over the Children Alive
- A Memoir
- 29. Jewish Children on the Aryan Side
- An Essay
- 30. Janusz Korczak Marches to Death with His Children
- A Biographical Vignette
- 31. Little Partisans
- A Memoir
- 32. Books in the Ghetto
- A Memoir
- 33. Poems by Children in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Resistance
- 34. Chief Physician Remba
- A Biographical Vignette
- 35. Little Wanda with the Braids
- A Biographical Vignette
- 36. Rosa Robota - The Heroine of the Auschwitz Underground
- A Biographical Vignette
- 37. Mordecai Anielewicz and His Movement
- An Essay
- 38. The Last Wish of My Life Has Been Granted
- A Letter
- 39. To Arms! The Proclamation of the Rebels in the Ghetto of Vilna
- 40. 'Shlomo Jelichovski'
- A Poem
- 41. The Letter of the Ninety-Three Maidens
- 42. Jewish Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
- An Essay
- Other Voices: Testimonies of Those Who Helped
- 43. A Pole in the Ghetto
- A Biographical Vignette
- 44. The Hiding Place
- A Memoir
- 45. Polish Friends
- A Memoir
- 46. Their Brothers' Keepers
- An Essay and Biographical Vignettes
- 47. Survival on the Aryan Side
- Vignettes
- Part III. To Live Again
- 48. Liberation
- A Memoir
- 49. The First Letter from America
- A Short Story
- 50. I Discover America
- Excerpt from a Novel
- 51. 'The Sweatshop'
- A Poem
- 52. 'Bread and Tea'
- A Poem
- 53. 'Yiddish'
- A Poem
- 54. In the Catskills
- Excerpt from a Novel
- 55. The Name (Yad Vashem)
- A Short Story
- 56. The Polish Wife
- A Short Story
- Glossary
- Bibliography
