Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary - Softcover

Patterson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295977833 ISBN 13: 9780295977836

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were actually taking place. Many of the writers did not survive. Patterson’s book is unique not only in the number of diaries and original texts it examines but also in the questions it raises and in the approach it takes from within Jewish traditions and contexts.

Patterson has organized his book around a series of themes that lead to a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works for both their writers and their readers, affirming the Holocaust diary as a form of spiritual resistance. Throughout, he draws upon his impressive knowledge of Jewish texts, ancient and modern—Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, the medieval commentators, the Hasidic masters, and modern Jewish philosophers and thinkers.

In Along the Edge of Annihilation David Patterson illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust, and shows how they chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the Inferno.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0295977833
• ISBN 13: 9780295977836
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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