Overview

Lili Berger wrote about the most traumatic and transformative developments of the twentieth century to which she herself was an eyewitness. On the Waves of Destiny presents an anthology that reflects her early life in interwar Poland during the rise of Hitler, her Second World War activities in occupied Paris where she was active in the Communist resistance, and her sojourn in Communist Poland from 1949 to 1968. The majority of her essays are pen portraits, often based on her own personal recollections, in which she made clear that she considered it her duty to memorialize the tens of thousands of Polish Jewish writers and artists who were murdered during the Holocaust, such as author and painter Bruno Schulz, historian Emanuel Ringelblum, and artist Gela Seksztajn, as well as to preserve their work. Even her short stories are based on actual experiences, not only her own but also those of people around her. ensure that Lili Berger's legacy will continue to resonate with future generations of readers.

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Author:   Lili Berger ,  Frieda Forman ,  Sam Blatt ,  Judy Nisenholt
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781487557157

ISBN 10:   1487557159
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   22 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction  Jewish Life in Poland We Polish Jews Naftole Herts Kon: The Tragic Enthusiasm Notes and Reflections on the Fate of the Written Word The Yiddish Folk Song in Polish Translation Holocaust The Hidden Source of a People’s Survival: Writings from the Ghettos and Camps On the Nineteenth Birthday of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum: Recollections and Summing Up Janusz Korczak: Pedagogue, Researcher Ankeh: To Her Eternal Memory Thoughts on Reading “The Medem Sanatorium Book” Arts and Letters Bruno Schulz: Artist and Jew Vasily Grossman: The History of a Book, or the Path to Jewish Identity Reyzl Zhikhlinski: On Her Poetry Czajka Czajka: The Painful Path to Self Discovery Berl Mark, The Man and the Creator: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Death Moyshe Shulshteyn: On His Tenth Yortsayt Fables, Short Stories, and Historic Fiction All Because of the Wife or The First Quarrel The Rebbetzin’s Sense of Justice With Tevye the Dairyman in the Underground Animals and Humans The Jew Who Came Late The Last Night Unfinished Pages: Excerpt The Debate between Paper and Letters: A Tale Epilogue Notes on the Underground: Lili Berger’s Reflections on Marranism Cultural Figures Named in the Text Biographies of Editors and Translators Books by Lily Berger Bibliography  

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Frieda Johles Forman was an author, translator, pioneer of feminist Jewish studies, who founded the Women’s Educational Resource Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and the award-winning editor of Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers. Sam Blatt is a Yiddish educator, translator, and editor, who has served as the coordinator of Yiddish teachers for adult education in the Toronto Jewish community. Judy Nisenholt is a Yiddish Book Center translation fellow with extensive experience translating Yiddish memoirs and letters. Vivian Felsen is an award-winning translator of French and Yiddish, whose published translations include books on Canadian Jewish history, Holocaust memoirs, and short stories.

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