Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
A Captive of the Dawn
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2011) 139-156
Keywords:
Markish, Peretz,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Yiddish literature History and criticism
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Yiddish literature History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
With the beginning of the Soviet-German war in 1941, Peretz Markish, who at the time was the chairman of the Yiddish section of the Soviet Writers' Union, became a key bard of the Jewish destruction during the war and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. The dominant theme of his poetry at this time is vengeance on Germany and on the Germans as a people; it is not God who would avenge the murder of the Jews, but the Jews themselves - Jewish soldiers of the Red Army. Markish also emphasized the uniqueness of the Jewish fate in the war and the specificity of Jewish revenge, rather than the unity and common fate of all Soviet peoples. These motifs led to accusations against him of Jewish nationalism, and he was even criticized by other members of the JAFC. In January 1949 Markish was arrested; he was executed in August 1952.
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