Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
A Captive of the Dawn
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2011) 157-171
Keywords:
Markish, Peretz,
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Theater, Yiddish
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Yiddish literature History and criticism
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War in literature
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Jewish literature History and criticism
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Yiddish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Peretz Markish's wartime play "An oyg far an oyg" ("An Eye for an Eye") and his postwar drama "Der ufshtand in ghetto" ("The Ghetto Uprising") are among the earliest dramatic representations of the Holocaust to have appeared on stage outside the ghettos themselves. Both plays are dedicated to the Jewish resistance. Markish, who felt anger and shame at Jewish inaction during the pogroms of the Civil War in Russia, called on Jews to take revenge on the Nazis. However, the connection between sword and book remained an intergral dimension of Markish's agenda. He believed that action and words are interdependent. Both his plays are concerned with the necessity of taking up the sword in defense of Jewish life and with the power of the poetic word to inspire that fight. Although Markish had to follow the party line in his depiction of the war and the "brotherhood of peoples", his plays are permeated with Jewish national sentiment.
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