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Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)

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  1. Número de páginas
    568 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Indiana University Press
  4. Fecha de publicación
    1 Julio 2007
  5. Dimensiones
    6 x 1.45 x 9 pulgadas
  6. ISBN-10
    0253349087
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0253349088
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In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and deportations, the group persevered in its work until the spring of 1943. Of its more than 60 members, only three survived. Ringelblum and his family perished in March 1944. But before he died, he managed to hide thousands of documents in milk cans and tin boxes. Searchers found two of these buried caches in 1946 and 1950.


Who Will Write Our History tells the gripping story of Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression.

Críticas

Samuel Kassow deserves great credit for bringing the history of the Oyneg Shabes and several of its towering figures to the attention of a broader, international audience. Meticulously researched and consistently objective in its account, Who Will Write Our History? is an important scholarly achievement. (World Socialist Web Site)

This may well be the most important book about history that anyone will ever read. (The New Republic)

[A] highly readable, well-grounded study on a fascinating secret undertaking under the boot of National Socialist occupation in Poland. (POLIN: Jrnl Pol-Jew Studies)

Kassow provides a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the value of Ringelblum's determination to keep alive in memory the ordeal of his fellow Jews. 4/28/11 (Forward.com)

[T]he critical success of Kassow's book is perhaps best explained by the fact that it is far more than a straightforward presentation of the archives. It allows us to relive the daily lives of men and women who were brought together by one man's mad undertaking. (booksandideas.net)

This is a book that comes to us at enormous human cost. It deserves to be read and studied by us all. July 14, 2010 (Palm Beach Jewish Journal)

Kassow has made a major contribution to our understanding of the depth of dedication that librarians and archivists should share toward the preservation of their materials.2008 (Matthew Z. Heintzelman Libraries & Cultural Record Vol. 43)

If there is one book that should be read about the Holocaust, it is Who Will Write Our History?November 13, 2008 (Jack Fischel New Jersey Jewish News)

. . . Trinity College professor Kassow's work is well researched, written, and documented. . . . Recommended. (Choice)

Together, Emanuel Ringelblum and Samuel Kassow help us remember why history matters. Winter 2009 (Slavic Review)

In this book, Kassow adheres to Ringelblum's inclusive philosophy, painting an exceedingly comprehensive picture of Jewish life in Warsaw before and during the war.October 2008 (Zachor)

A stunning revelation of the enduring spirit of the decimated residents of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Rita Kohn NUVO Weekly)

If there is any book that should be read this year (or any year) about the Holocaust it is Who Will Write Our History?Fall 2008 (Jewish Book World)

. . . one of the most important books I’ve ever read . . . Kassow has created a stunning and brilliant social history of Polish Jews . . . (Bonny V. Fetterman Reform Judaism)

The query that gives the book its title is more than answered by the painful text of the book itself. The martyred historians achieved their purpose. It is they who wrote the history that Kassow has transformed into a compelling and significant narrative, a tribute to the courage and determination of the doomed archivists. May 2010 (Hadassah Magazine)

Críticas

Two major historians meet in this book: one named Ringelblum, the other named Kassow. Drawing on his passion for the past, his revolutionary ethos, his organizational genius, not to speak of his self-discipline, unflagging energy and courage, Emanuel Ringelblum recorded, compiled, and preserved the last chapter of Polish Jewry. Drawing on his vast erudition and moral imagination, Samuel Kassow has rescued this incomparable story. Thanks to him, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is revealed to be the single greatest memory site of east European Jewry. (David G. Roskies author of Against the Apocalypse)

Samuel Kassow's book on Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes is a chef d'oeuvre. I can only marvel at the author's ability to master a bewildering array of primary and secondary sources and write a temperate but impassioned historical study of his own. It is one of the most important studies on the Holocaust to have appeared in years. (Zachary Baker Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections, Stanford University Libraries)

Biografía del autor

Samuel D. Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. He is author of Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia, 1884–1917 and editor (with Edith W. Clowes) of Between Tsar and People: The Search for a Public Identity in Tsarist Russia. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

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  • Linda W. Rose
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    Incredible Insight into the Warsaw Ghetto
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 12 de octubre de 2008
    This is an extremely important book which tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum who saw the necessity to record life, and death, as he lived it during his "incarceration" in the Warsaw Ghetto. Mr. Ringelblum's efforts to collect, collate, and hide this... Ver más
    This is an extremely important book which tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum who saw the necessity to record life, and death, as he lived it during his "incarceration" in the Warsaw Ghetto. Mr. Ringelblum's efforts to collect, collate, and hide this important information, code name "Oneg Shabbat" are a major source of much of the information we currently have about those horrible years. I heartily recommend this book. Someone had to "write the history".
    This is an extremely important book which tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum who saw the necessity to record life, and death, as he lived it during his "incarceration" in the Warsaw Ghetto. Mr. Ringelblum's efforts to collect, collate, and hide this important information, code name "Oneg Shabbat" are a major source of much of the information we currently have about those horrible years. I heartily recommend this book. Someone had to "write the history".
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  • John J. Gaynard
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    A very important book featuring a truly great man!
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 30 de noviembre de 2010
    The story of the historian Emanuel Ringelblum who organized ordinary people to write what was happening from day to day in such a terrible situation, and then to hide the archives, is truly awe-inspiring. There have been previous comments about the first chapters, that... Ver más
    The story of the historian Emanuel Ringelblum who organized ordinary people to write what was happening from day to day in such a terrible situation, and then to hide the archives, is truly awe-inspiring. There have been previous comments about the first chapters, that concentrate on the history of 1930s Poland and the ideological battles between the advocates of Yiddish culture and the Polish-language "assimilationists" being tedious, however I found much of this material new and worthwhile and, although it may be a little too long, it is necessary for understanding what happened afterwards and how different groups within the Jewish community reacted. Much of what happened between the different Jewish political groups in 1930s Poland and in the Warsaw Ghetto had an impact on how Israel developed later.
    The story of the historian Emanuel Ringelblum who organized ordinary people to write what was happening from day to day in such a terrible situation, and then to hide the archives, is truly awe-inspiring. There have been previous comments about the first chapters, that concentrate on the history of 1930s Poland and the ideological battles between the advocates of Yiddish culture and the Polish-language "assimilationists" being tedious, however I found much of this material new and worthwhile and, although it may be a little too long, it is necessary for understanding what happened afterwards and how different groups within the Jewish community reacted. Much of what happened between the different Jewish political groups in 1930s Poland and in the Warsaw Ghetto had an impact on how Israel developed later.
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  • gail
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    Very well written and enlightening!
    Very well written and enlightening!
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  • Giovanni Ratti
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    definitive book
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    A fantastic, I am tempted to say a definitive book about this compelling issue. For sure a milestone, as far as I can judge.
    A fantastic, I am tempted to say a definitive book about this compelling issue. For sure a milestone, as far as I can judge.
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  • Owen Brown
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    tedious, and depressing
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 25 de mayo de 2009
    The intricacies of a long-dead, long-vanished world are recorded here to a deafening degree. The varieties of pre-war Jewish political movements, perhaps of passing interest to the specialist, are given pride of place, after which one is confronted by a barrage of pages on... Ver más
    The intricacies of a long-dead, long-vanished world are recorded here to a deafening degree. The varieties of pre-war Jewish political movements, perhaps of passing interest to the specialist, are given pride of place, after which one is confronted by a barrage of pages on various ghetto figures who were either chronicled in the archives, or were contributed. Almost all of them died. The second half of the work is more readable than the first, but this says little. Only a very patient reader will be captured by this work - for specialists of the period, or for those who collect works on this horror, the Holocaust.
    The intricacies of a long-dead, long-vanished world are recorded here to a deafening degree. The varieties of pre-war Jewish political movements, perhaps of passing interest to the specialist, are given pride of place, after which one is confronted by a barrage of pages on various ghetto figures who were either chronicled in the archives, or were contributed. Almost all of them died. The second half of the work is more readable than the first, but this says little. Only a very patient reader will be captured by this work - for specialists of the period, or for those who collect works on this horror, the Holocaust.
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  • Obiwan
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    This has to be one of the most tedious books I have ever tried to read. It is crammed with minutia about prewar internecine politics of communist micro organizations no one but the author and his closest collegues can remember. It is salted with foreign words that are not... Ver más
    This has to be one of the most tedious books I have ever tried to read. It is crammed with minutia about prewar internecine politics of communist micro organizations no one but the author and his closest collegues can remember. It is salted with foreign words that are not even italicized, let alone defined. He does not even do us the courtesy of identifying the language, which might be Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Lithuanian, Ukranian or Russian. There are probably not more than a dozen people on the planet who can benefit from this book, unfortunately one of the wrote a review that tempted me to buy it.
    This has to be one of the most tedious books I have ever tried to read. It is crammed with minutia about prewar internecine politics of communist micro organizations no one but the author and his closest collegues can remember. It is salted with foreign words that are not even italicized, let alone defined. He does not even do us the courtesy of identifying the language, which might be Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Lithuanian, Ukranian or Russian. There are probably not more than a dozen people on the planet who can benefit from this book, unfortunately one of the wrote a review that tempted me to buy it.
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    Great factual book - for a change!
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    Only knew about the book after watching a TV documentary - bought it - it makes for very interesting and thoughtful reading - in the face of real adversity - how people kept going. The background to it all is as interesting as the stories. Signed by the author, the book is...Ver más
    Only knew about the book after watching a TV documentary - bought it - it makes for very interesting and thoughtful reading - in the face of real adversity - how people kept going. The background to it all is as interesting as the stories. Signed by the author, the book is really a gem amongst all the history books from that unique and different perspective.
    Only knew about the book after watching a TV documentary - bought it - it makes for very interesting and thoughtful reading - in the face of real adversity - how people kept going. The background to it all is as interesting as the stories. Signed by the author, the book is really a gem amongst all the history books from that unique and different perspective.

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