In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz - Couverture souple

Zelkowicz, Josef; Opoczynski, Peretz

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798998779855

Editeur : White Goat Press, 2026

Synopsis

Peretz Opoczynski was a journalist who made significant contributions to the Warsaw Ghetto's secret Jewish archive, Oyneg Shabes. Josef Zelkowicz, an ordained rabbi, became a key member of the semi-official archive in the Ló dz Ghetto. While other writers sought to create an objective and dispassionate record of ghetto circumstances, Zelkowicz and Opoczynski chronicled daily life and Jewish responses to the torment of Nazi oppression with powerful immediacy. This is a volume of reportage from occupied Poland produced in the two major Nazi ghettos, Warsaw and Ló dz, by two Yiddish writers schooled in the culture of East European Jewry. Translated by David Suchoff, with an expert and elegant introduction by Samuel Kassow, these profound writings are at last accessible to contemporary readers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel D. Kassow is Charles H. Northam Professor of History, Emeritus, at Trinity College. David Sucho is Professor Emeritus of English at Colby College. Josef Zelkowicz (1897- 1944), an ethnographer and professional journalist writing in Yiddish before the war, was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz, where he perished. Peretz Opoczynski (1892- 1943), a journalist by profession, found work as a mailman in the Warsaw Ghetto after the war started and wrote many pieces for the secret archive until he was most likely rounded up in January 1943.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Goat Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798998779855
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 309
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