Memoir and Testimony
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Köp båda 2 för 660 kr"The greatest poet of the Holocaust" - The New York Times Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet, a freedom fighter, and a witness in the Nuremberg trials. His epic poem Ode to the Dove is now available in English for ...
The appearance of the literary master Abraham Sutzkevers Vilna Ghetto in English is like a bomb detonating in the language of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Saul Bellow. This translation by a Smith College Jewish Studies professor, Justin Cammy, joins the original Yiddish as well as previous editions in Hebrew, French, Russian, German, and Lithuanian as a clear eyed chronicle of murderous madness. It is a major literary event that reminds a forgetful culture of the things that demand remembrance. The New York Sun From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. Its especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat. Forward Reviews This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poets Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershterns stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkevers poetry during and after the war. LA Review of Books
Abraham Sutzkever (19132010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. He achieved international recognition as a young writer in interwar Poland and later settled in Tel Aviv. Justin D. Cammy is professor of Jewish studies and world literatures at Smith College and a 2018 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow.