Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Literature & Theology
Angaben zur Quelle:
15,4 (2001) 396-412
Keywords:
Elberg, Yehudah
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Jewish literature History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Discusses two novels by the Yiddish writer (b. 1912) recently translated into English: "Ship of the Hunted" and "The Empire of Kalman the Cripple." The former begins in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 and depicts the life of a woman, Golda, whose husband and three children are deported to Auschwitz. Golda is deported later to Treblinka, manages to escape, and lives as a hungry madwoman in the woods until the end of the war. The novel ends when Golda is reunited with her son on a ship taking them to Palestine. Elberg himself was active in the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. The second novel depicts prewar shtetl life in Poland.
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