Overview
This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic ""postcards"" from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (OB) soldiers. The first part of the book, a collection of conversations with the last soldiers of the OB, which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, is called ""Still Circling"". The first of the interviews was recorded in 1985 with OB commander Marek Edelman, and the last anotherconversation with him from 2000. Grupiska's other interlocutors are also OB veterans-rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. They relate the stories of their homes and backgrounds-some were Bundists, others from Zionist orreligious families-followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remembered the uprising. This provides several unique perspectives on shared episodes. Images include portraits of Grupiska's interlocutors, as well as never previously published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards. The second part of the book, ""Rereading the List,"" is intended to function like a litany of the names of the OB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This list was compiled by a group of fighters in 1943 and rediscovered by the author in 2000.Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter-sometimes only a sentence or two-as well as any available photograph of them. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the OB army, its divisions, and the places they fought.
Full Product Details
Author: Hanka Grupiska ,
Jessica Taylor-Kucia
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.775kg
ISBN: 9798887192680
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 25 July 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Hanka Grupiska is a writer and lecturer. In the 1980s she collaborated with underground newspapers and was one of the co-founders of the Pozna-based quarterly Czas Kultury, for which she wrote, translated, and edited texts. In the 1990s she lived in Israel, where she was cultural attach at the Polish embassy and spent six years gathering material for her book on Hasidic women, Najtrudniej jest spotka Lilit (currently in translation under the working title Lilith among the Storks). Grupiska spent a quarter-century documenting the history of the extermination of the Jews. She is the author of several non-fiction volumes on the Holocaust. She has spent the last decade observing the vicissitudes of the Tibetan people, which she described in her volume Dalekowysoko. Tybetaczycybez ziemi [Highupandfaraway: Landless Tibetans]. She occasionally teaches creative writing classes at universities and colleges in Warsaw.
