My War: Memoir of a Young Jewish Poet - Rilegato

Stankiewicz, Edward

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0815607547 ISBN 13: 9780815607540

Casa editrice: Syrcause University Press, 2002

Riassunto

Stankiewicz (Slavic linguistics and literary theory, Yale U.) contributes a memoir to the series that has a familiar beginning and ending childhood in Warsaw, surviving Buchenwald but is considerably different from most in the middle. He went to Soviet-occupied Lwów, where he joined the literary club, and engaged in Eastern European intellectual life until the Nazis came, then escaped from the ghetto to the Eastern Ukraine before being captured. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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L'autore

Edward Stankiewicz is professor emeritus of Slavic linguistics and literary theory at Yale University.

Product Description

A unique personal account of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and of a young man's determination to prevail in the face of utter catastrophe. In this unusual memoir, Edward Stankiewicz stirringly recalls his youth as a Polish Jew beginning with prewar Warsaw through to the Nazi invasion. Life on the run lands Stankiewicz in Soviet-occupied. Lwow where in time he joins the Lwow Literary Club. A friend of Jewish, Yiddish, Polish, and Soviet poets and writers, he offers rare insights into wartime Eastern European intellectual life. After the German occupation of Lwow, in the newly built Jewish ghetto, he works in German military outfits and learns to forge Aryan and German documents to help people escape. In a German uniform he escapes to the Eastern Ukraine where he wanders for several months from town to town. Captured by the Gestapo, he is shipped to Buchenwald where he survives as a Pole. In the camp he manages to produce Polish and German poetry and a play. Some of these poems are reproduced in the book. Writing in a spare, accessible style, Stankiewicz unflinchingly addresses such significant issues as identity, loyalty, betrayal, anti-Semitism, and communism.

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• Editore: Syrcause University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0815607547
• ISBN 13: 9780815607540
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208