Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries
Amy Simon, "Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries "
English | ISBN: 103244018X | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 103244018X | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.
It re-centers the daily experiences of psychological and physical violence that made up ghetto life and that ultimately led victims to use their diaries as a place of agency to question and attempt to maintain their own beliefs in pre-war Jewish and Enlightenment ethics and morality. Holocaust scholars and students, as well as people interested in personal narratives, interpersonal relations, and the problem of dehumanization during the Holocaust will find this study particularly thought-provoking.
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