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Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance in Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust)
Laura Weinrib
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Description for Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance in Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust)
Hardcover. "Nitzotz" is the only known Hebrew-language publication to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation anywhere in Europe. This title presents this remarkable document to English readers. Along with a translation of the five remaining Dachau-Kaufering issues, it includes an extensive critical introduction. Editor(s): Weinrib, Laura. Translator(s): Weinrib, Estee. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 232 pages, 31 b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. Beginning with the Soviet occuption of Kovno, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, ""Nitzotz"" (""Spark""), in which they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlment in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was destroyed, several contributors to ""Nitzotz"" were deported to the camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did not lay down their pens. ""Nitzotz"" is the only known Hebrew-language publication to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation ... Read more
Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. Beginning with the Soviet occuption of Kovno, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, ""Nitzotz"" (""Spark""), in which they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlment in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was destroyed, several contributors to ""Nitzotz"" were deported to the camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did not lay down their pens. ""Nitzotz"" is the only known Hebrew-language publication to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632337
SKU
V9780815632337
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About Laura Weinrib
Laura Weinrib is a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in legal history at New York University School of Law. Her grandfather Shlomo Frenkel Shafir was the editor of Nitzotz during the Dachau-Kaufering years and after liberation.
Reviews for Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance in Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust)
The pages of Nitzotz are a persuasive testimony to the courage and resilience of the human spirit under the most trying circumstances. . . . In addition to a striking document of the epoch, we find here an answer to a nagging question: how will memory of the Holocaust be preserved when witnesses are no longer alive? Readers ... Read more