May God Avenge Their Blood

A Holocaust Memoir Triptych

Rachmil Bryks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2102-3 (ISBN)

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May God Avenge Their Blood consists of three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks translated for the first time into English. With narrative flair and vivid detail, Bryks brilliantly captures interwar Jewish life in his hometown of Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, the early days of World War II, and his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps.

May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Lódz and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.

Rachmil Bryks was author of seven Yiddish-language books and contributed extensively to the Yiddish press. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator, and is the recipient of the 2012 Yiddish Book Center Translation Prize and the 2014–2017 Modern Language Association’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.

I.Those Who Didn’t Survive
A Letter from Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon

II.The Fugitives
My Sacred Obligation by Hinde Bryks
A Few Observations by Berl Kagan
1.This Is How It All Began
2.Fugitives
3.A Gas Nightmare
4.I Take Flight
5.Warsaw Bound
6.My Return to Lódz
7.In German Captivity
8.Theft, Torment, Murders
9.We’re Transferred to Germany
10. We’re Taken from the Camp—But Where?
11. In a Camp Near Kraków
12. In Camp Kobiezshin
13.Freedom Gained
14.In Skarzysko-Kamienna—New Troubles
15.In Koluszki
16.We Arrive in Lódz
17.At Home with Mordecai Gebirtig
18.Visit to Josef Wulf

III.From Agony to Life
1.Deportation to Auschwitz
2.Transport to Germany
3.In Other Concentration Camps
4.The Wild Beast
5.The First Weeks
6.Laundry Day
7.A Gallows
8.New Germans, New Troubles
9. Episodes and Characters
10.Return to Camp Braunschweig
11.In Camp Wattenstadt
12.From “Switzerland” to a Death Camp
13.We’re Liberated

Papa, As I Remember Him by Bella Bryks-

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
Nachwort	Bella Bryks-Klein, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Übersetzer	Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Zusatzinfo	6 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 231 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-7936-2102-0 / 1793621020
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2102-3 / 9781793621023
Zustand	Neuware