On the Waves of Destiny

Selected Writings

AvLili Berger,Frieda Forman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Lili Berger wrote about the most traumatic and transformative developments of the twentieth century to which she herself was an eyewitness. On the Waves of Destiny presents an anthology that reflects her early life in interwar Poland during the rise of Hitler, her Second World War activities in occupied Paris where she was active in the Communist resistance, and her sojourn in Communist Poland from 1949 to 1968.The majority of her essays are pen portraits, often based on her own personal recollections, in which she made clear that she considered it her duty to memorialize the tens of thousands of Polish Jewish writers and artists who were murdered during the Holocaust, such as author and painter Bruno Schulz, historian Emanuel Ringelblum, and artist Gela Seksztajn, as well as to preserve their work. Even her short stories are based on actual experiences, not only her own but also those of people around her. In her stories, her essays, and her allegorical fables, she explored issues such as equality for women, the moral responsibility of a writer, the question of Jewish identity, and the creative process in general. The translations in On the Waves of Destiny ensure that Lili Berger’s legacy will continue to resonate with future generations of readers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487557157

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Frieda Johles Forman was an author, translator, pioneer of feminist Jewish studies, who founded the Women’s Educational Resource Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and the award-winning editor of Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers.Sam Blatt is a Yiddish educator, translator, and editor, who has served as the coordinator of Yiddish teachers for adult education in the Toronto Jewish community.Judy Nisenholt is a Yiddish Book Center translation fellow with extensive experience translating Yiddish memoirs and letters.Vivian Felsen is an award-winning translator of French and Yiddish, whose published translations include books on Canadian Jewish history, Holocaust memoirs, and short stories.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionJewish Life in PolandWe Polish JewsNaftole Herts Kon: The Tragic EnthusiasmNotes and Reflections on the Fate of the Written WordThe Yiddish Folk Song in Polish TranslationHolocaustThe Hidden Source of a People’s Survival: Writings from the Ghettos and CampsOn the Nineteenth Birthday of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum: Recollections and Summing UpJanusz Korczak: Pedagogue, ResearcherAnkeh: To Her Eternal MemoryThoughts on Reading "The Medem Sanatorium Book"Arts and LettersBruno Schulz: Artist and JewVasily Grossman: The History of a Book, or the Path to Jewish IdentityReyzl Zhikhlinski: On Her PoetryCzajkaCzajka: The Painful Path to Self DiscoveryBerl Mark, The Man and the Creator: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His DeathMoyshe Shulshteyn: On His Tenth Yortsayt Fables, Short Stories, and Historic FictionAll Because of the Wife or The First QuarrelThe Rebbetzin’s Sense of JusticeWith Tevye the Dairyman in the UndergroundAnimals and HumansThe Jew Who Came LateThe Last NightUnfinished Pages: ExcerptThe Debate between Paper and Letters: A TaleEpilogueNotes on the Underground: Lili Berger’s Reflections on MarranismCultural Figures Named in the TextBiographies of Editors and TranslatorsBooks by Lily BergerBibliography