Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (2005-2006) 86-95
Keywords:
An-Ski, S.,
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Analyzes the work written in 1920 by the Russian Yiddish writer and ethnologist S. An-skii, "Der yiddisher khurbn fun Poiln, Galitsye un Bukovine" (generally called "Khurbn Galitsye"), a historical record based on diary notes from 1914-17. Emphasizes the lucidity and pathos of his writing and his awareness of the "epic" dimensions of the devastation caused by the war on Jewish material and spiritual culture. He set out for Galicia to survey the situation on the front and to lobby for the Galician Jews' cause, but soon became engaged in rescue work, raising and transferring funds, as well as providing food, medicine, and shelter for needy Jewish refugees. He documented the movements of the Russian troops and the looting that accompanied them, the taking of Jewish hostages, and the summary execution of innocent Jews. He also describes Jewish soldiers fighting each other and the indifference of the haughty Jewish upper classes. For him, the war marked the culmination of the process of exclusion of the Jews, which had already been manifested in pogroms and legal discrimination.
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