Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish CultureSyracuse University Press, 1 de des. 1999 - 388 pàgines This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings. |
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Pàgina 177
... wife , Sheyne - Sheyndl , represent the two most extreme cases of a fixed linguistic form versus an ever - changing reality . In the second series of letters between them , written in 1913 and only recently reissued in book form ...
... wife , Sheyne - Sheyndl , represent the two most extreme cases of a fixed linguistic form versus an ever - changing reality . In the second series of letters between them , written in 1913 and only recently reissued in book form ...
Pàgina 178
... wife . What's the point [ he says ] when there's no way to make a living and no money to make a move to America , and dying is something you have to do anyway , so rather than die of hunger , why not take poison while you're still alive ...
... wife . What's the point [ he says ] when there's no way to make a living and no money to make a move to America , and dying is something you have to do anyway , so rather than die of hunger , why not take poison while you're still alive ...
Pàgina 234
... wife gave birth to a child , a boy . I was not in the ghetto at that time , having escaped from one of these so- called " actions . " When I came to the ghetto later I found that my wife had had a baby in a ghetto hospital . But I saw ...
... wife gave birth to a child , a boy . I was not in the ghetto at that time , having escaped from one of these so- called " actions . " When I came to the ghetto later I found that my wife had had a baby in a ghetto hospital . But I saw ...
Continguts
Ruined Cities of the Mind | 1 |
The Liturgy of Destruction | 15 |
Broken Tablets and Flying Letters | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture David G. Roskies Previsualització limitada - 1999 |
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