Surplus of Memory - Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Informationen zum Autor Yitzhak Zuckerman ("Antek")! 1915-1981! was the last commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization. After World War II he assisted the exodus of surviving Jews to Palestine! where he also emigrated. His memoirs were published in Israel in 1991. Barbara Harshav ! who has taught history at various universities and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem! is the translator of several books! including Jewish Memories (from French! California! 1990) and American Yiddish Poetry (from Yiddish! with Benjamin Harshav! California! 1986). Klappentext In 1943! against utterly hopeless odds! the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization! which led the uprisings! was Yitzhak Zuckerman! known by his underground pseudonym! 'Antek.' Decades later! living in Israel! Antek dictated his memoirs! which were published in Hebrew as Those Seven Years: 1939-1946. Zusammenfassung A memoir that situates the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth movements were gradually forged into what became the first significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied Europe.

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• Authors: ), antek", "Yitzhak Antek""""" Zuckerman, Yitzhak Zuckerman, Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman, Yitzhak (" Zuckerman, Yitzhak ('antek') Zuckerman
• Assisted by: Barbara Harshav (Editor), Harshav Barbara (Editor), Barbara Harshav (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.1993
• EAN: 9780520078413
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07841-3
• No. of pages: 708
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, Poland, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front