Overview
Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. Beginning with the Soviet occuption of Kovno, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, """"Nitzotz"""" (""""Spark""""), in which they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlment in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was destroyed, several contributors to """"Nitzotz"""" were deported to the camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did not lay down their pens. """"Nitzotz"""" is the only known Hebrew-language publication to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation anywhere in Europe. Its authors believed that their intellectual defiance would insulate them against the dehumanizing cruelty of the concentration camp and equip them to lead the postwar effort for the physical and spiritual regeneration of European Jewry. Laura Weinrib presents this remarkable document to English readers for the first time. Along with a translation of the five remaining Dachau-Kaufering issues, the book includes an extensive critical introduction. """"Nitzotz"""" is a testament to the resilience of those struggling for survival.
Full Product Details
Author: Laura M. Weinrib ,
Estee Shafir Weinrib ,
Estee Weinrib
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780815632337
ISBN 10: 0815632339
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 November 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The pages of Nitzotz are a persuasive testimony to the courage and resilience of the human spirit under the most trying circumstances. . . . In addition to a striking document of the epoch, we find here an answer to a nagging question: how will memory of the Holocaust be preserved when witnesses are no longer alive? Readers of this remarkable book will rest assured that the spark will be kept ablaze through successor generations.--Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
The pages of Nitzotz are a persuasive testimony to the courage and resilience of the human spirit under the most trying circumstances. . . . In addition to a striking document of the epoch, we find here an answer to a nagging question: how will memory of the Holocaust be preserved when witnesses are no longer alive? Readers of this remarkable book will rest assured that the spark will be kept ablaze through successor generations.
Author Information
Laura M. Weinrib is a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in legal history at New York University School of Law. Her grandfather Shlomo Frenkel Shafir was the editor of Nitzotz during the Dachau-Kaufering years and after liberation.
