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Author: Abraham Sutzkever ,
Justin D. Cammy ,
Avraham Novershtern
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 9780228008927
ISBN 10: 0228008921
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 06 October 2021
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The appearance of the literary master Abraham Sutzkever's Vilna Ghetto in English is like a bomb detonating in the language of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Saul Bellow. This translation by a Smith College Jewish Studies professor, Justin Cammy, joins the original Yiddish as well as previous editions in Hebrew, French, Russian, German, and Lithuanian as a clear eyed chronicle of murderous madness. It is a major literary event that reminds a forgetful culture of the things that demand remembrance. The New York Sun From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. It's especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat. Forward Reviews This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poet's Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershtern's stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkever's poetry during and after the war. LA Review of Books
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. It's especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat. Forward Reviews
“The appearance of the literary master Abraham Sutzkever’s “Vilna Ghetto” in English is like a bomb detonating in the language of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Saul Bellow. This translation by a Smith College Jewish Studies professor, Justin Cammy, joins the original Yiddish as well as previous editions in Hebrew, French, Russian, German, and Lithuanian as a clear eyed chronicle of murderous madness. It is a major literary event that reminds a forgetful culture of the things that demand remembrance.” The New York Sun “From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. It’s especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat.” Forward Reviews “This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poet’s Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershtern’s stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkever’s poetry during and after the war.” LA Review of Books
Author Information
Abraham Sutzkever (1913–2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. He achieved international recognition as a young writer in interwar Poland and later settled in Tel Aviv. Justin D. Cammy is professor of Jewish studies and world literatures at Smith College and a 2018 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow.
