| Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto Contributor(s): Spiegel, Isaiah (Author), Hirsch, David H. (Translator), Hirsch, Roslyn (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810116251 ISBN-13: 9780810116252 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-35270 |
| Series: Jewish Lives |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.58" W x 8.74" (0.49 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Isaiah Spiegel was an inmate of the Lodz Ghetto from its inception in 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. While there, he wrote short stories depicting Jewish life in the ghetto and managed to hide them before he was deported to Auschwitz. After being freed, he returned to Lodz to retrieve and publish his stories. The stories examine the relationship between inmates and their families, their friends, their Christian former neighbors, the German soldiers, and, ultimately, the world of hopelessness and desperation that surrounded them. In using his creative powers to transform the suffering and death of his people into stories that preserve their memory, Spiegel succeeds in affirming the humanity and dignity the Germans were so intent on destroying. Originally published as Malchut geto (Malkhes geto) in Yiddish. |