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Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne's memoir as a work of "bitter truth" that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition, including both Thorne's original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. Rabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant's pigsty. But, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps, human degradation, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding, he grappled not only with survivor's guilt, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Thorne's firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century's greatest tragedy.
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This study provides a solid background for understanding nineteenth-century Galicia as the historic Piedmont of the Ukrainian national revival.
Nationalism --- Nationalisme --- Ukrainiens --- History. --- Histoire. --- History --- Histoire --- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Galichina (Poland and Ukraine) --- Galicja (Poland and Ukraine) --- Galizien (Poland and Ukraine) --- Halychyna (Poland and Ukraine) --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ukrainians --- Ethnology --- Slavs, Eastern --- Ruthenians --- Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine) --- Eastern Galicia (Ukraine) --- Galicja Wschodnia (Ukraine) --- Skhidna Halychyna (Ukraine) --- Ukraine, Western
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Trotz eines halben Jahrhunderts Holocaust-Forschung ist das Geschehen an den konkreten Tatorten des Massenmordes in Polen und in der Sowjetunion immer noch wenig erforscht. Die Juden in Ostgalizien sind vor allem durch ihre hervorragenden Kulturleistungen bekannt geworden. Dafür stehen Namen wie Joseph Roth und Manès Sperber. Völlig unbekannt hingegen sind die Geschehnisse unter deutscher Besatzung, als diese Volksgruppe, die über eine halbe Million Menschen zählte, in weniger als drei Jahren erbarmungslos ausgerottet wurde. Dieter Pohl zeichnet in seiner Studie die Organisation und Durchführung dieses Massenverbrechens detailliert nach. Er kann sich dabei auf eine Fülle von Aktenmaterial stützen, denn die Täter haben mehr Dokumente hinterlassen, als man bisher vermutet hat. Der Autor hat umfangreiche Recherchen in deutschen und in den zugänglich gewordenen osteuropäischen Archiven durchgeführt und darüber hinaus die gesamte, oft zu wenig beachtete, osteuropäische Forschungsliteratur verarbeitet. Die umfangreichen Akten aus den Ermittlungsverfahren, die nach 1945 durchgeführt wurden, erlauben eine differenzierte Darstellung des Verhaltens der am Massenmord Beteiligten. Der Autor schildert, wie ein zahlenmäßig schwacher deutscher Besatzungsapparat der jüdischen Minderheit alle Lebensgrundlagen entzog und die Polizei in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Zivilverwaltung und anderen Behörden den Massenmord durch Erschießungen und Deportationen in Vernichtungslager organisierte. Die Täter handelten zwar nach Vorgaben aus Berlin, hatten jedoch große Handlungsspielräume vor Ort. Kennzeichnend ist die breite Beteiligung des Personals der Besatzungsherrschaft am Morden, das keineswegs nur das Geschäft weniger Spezialeinheiten war. Entscheidende Bedeutung für die Radikalisierung des Antisemitismus hatte die korrupte, von Entbürokratisierung und Improvisation gekennzeichnete Besatzungsherrschaft. Der Autor kann nachweisen, daß von einer Geheimhaltung der "Endlösung" keine Rede sein kann. Vielmehr waren die Morde im Osten weithin bekannt, genaue Informationen drangen ins Reich und in die ganze freie Welt.
Jews --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Persecutionse --- Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine) --- Ethnic relations. --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Eastern Galicia (Ukraine) --- Galicja Wschodnia (Ukraine) --- Skhidna Halychyna (Ukraine) --- Ukraine, Western --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)
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In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Bartov, a leading Holocaust scholar, discovers that to make sense of the heartbreaking events of the war, he must first grapple with the complex interethnic relationships and conflicts that have existed there for centuries. Visiting twenty Ukrainian towns, he recreates the histories of the vibrant Jewish and Polish communities who once lived there-and describes what is left today following their brutal and complete destruction. Bartov encounters Jewish cemeteries turned into marketplaces, synagogues made into garbage dumps, and unmarked burial pits from the mass killings. He bears witness to the hastily erected monuments following Ukraine's independence in 1991, memorials that glorify leaders who collaborated with the Nazis in the murder of Jews. He finds that the newly independent Ukraine-with its ethnically cleansed and deeply anti-Semitic population--has recreated its past by suppressing all memory of its victims. Illustrated with dozens of hauntingly beautiful photographs from Bartov's travels, Erased forces us to recognize the shocking intimacy of genocide.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Influence. --- History --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine) --- Eastern Galicia (Ukraine) --- Galicja Wschodnia (Ukraine) --- Skhidna Halychyna (Ukraine) --- Ukraine, Western --- Ethnic relations. --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)
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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe.Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.
Ukraina. --- Ryssland. --- Agunah. --- Antisemitism. --- Arson. --- Banknote. --- Beit Hatfutsot. --- Belarus. --- Bratslav. --- Brewery. --- Bribery. --- Bureaucrat. --- Catherine the Great. --- Chabad. --- Commodity. --- Conscription. --- Contraband. --- Corporal punishment. --- Courtesy. --- Crime. --- Derazhnia. --- Dwelling. --- Eastern Galicia. --- Famine. --- Free trade. --- Hasid (term). --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Horse theft. --- Household. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Income. --- Isaac Bashevis Singer. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Kerchief. --- Korets. --- Kremenets. --- Land of Israel. --- Landlord. --- Lithuania. --- Lviv. --- Magnate. --- Market town. --- Minyan. --- Mogilev. --- Moses. --- Narrative. --- Newspaper. --- Nickname. --- Obscenity. --- Ostrog (fortress). --- Pale of Settlement. --- Partitions of Poland. --- Paul I of Russia. --- Peasant. --- Persecution. --- Podolia. --- Pogrom. --- Poles. --- Pretext. --- Printing press. --- Proverb. --- Purim. --- Radomyshl. --- Rebbe. --- Residence. --- Retail. --- Roman Vishniac. --- Ruble. --- Rural area. --- Russian nationalism. --- Russians. --- Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty). --- S. Ansky. --- Samovar. --- Serfdom. --- Shaul Stampfer. --- Shirt. --- Shlomo. --- Shtetl. --- Slavs. --- Slavuta. --- Smuggling. --- Sukkot. --- Szlachta. --- Tailor. --- Tatars. --- Tavern. --- Tax. --- Tel Aviv. --- Theft. --- Twersky. --- Ukrainians. --- Urbanization. --- Vodka. --- Volhynia. --- Wealth. --- Writing. --- Yid. --- Yiddish.
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