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Yiddishlands is essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past and the living Yiddish present.

A powerful and original compilation of writings from the Jewish captives of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II

Traces the Yiddish experience through major historical events. This memoir leads readers through Yiddishlands by revisiting the author's personal and professional experiences and retelling his family saga in a series of interwoven stories. It also includes an audio CD of songs in Yiddish, Russian, and Polish.

After redrawing the map of modern Jewish memory, David G. Roskies takes the reader on a grand tour of major memory sites, each of which is built upon foundations of rebellion, rupture, and loss: chronicles of catastrophe from the Warsaw ghetto that preserve a broken covenant, the symbolic landscape of an Old World shtetl, a gallery of rabbis and zaddikim who are really rebels in disguise, a repertoire of parodic songs, a failed revolution reca...

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This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings.