A young reader's edition of The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year. An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust. Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army and stage an uprising.The name of the camp - Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life and his family to warn the West before all was lost.To do so meant attempting the impossible - but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself... For children aged 12 and up. Written from exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, famil
This book analyses Irene Nemirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our un
Auschwitz—the largest and most notorious of Hitler’s concentration camps—was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in 1933. Before Auschwitz une
This book analyses Irene Nemirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our un
Once there was a renowned magician called Nivelli, who performed before packed audiences in the grandest theaters of Berlin. Night after night, his fans applauded and called out for more astonishing f
“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the p
Primo Levi’s hold on scholarly, critical and public attention grows with the passing of time. He commands a position of prominence in discourses ranging across the disciplines of Holocaust studies, J
??? Historian Gilad Margalit eloquently fills a tragic gap in the historical record with this sweeping examination of the plight of Gypsies in Germany before, during, and since the era of the Third
????Historian Gilad Margalit eloquently fills a tragic gap in the historical record with this sweeping examination of the plight of Gypsies in Germany before, during, and since the era of the Third Re
The owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Brooklyn shares his story as a Holocaust survivor who learned tailoring skills during his incarceration before building a fashion empire in America.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
In a 1965 letter to Newsweek, French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the 'Number One Realist' on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina.Nathaniel L. Moir's intellectual history analyses Fall's formative experiences: his service in the French underground and army during the Second World War; his father's execution by the Germans and his mother's murder in Auschwitz; and his work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg Trials. Moir demonstrates how these critical events shaped Fall's trenchant analysis of Viet Minh-led revolutionary warfare during the French-Indochina War and the early Vietnam War. In the years before conventional American intervention in 1965, Fall argued that--far more than anything in the UnitedStates' military arsenal--resolving conflict in Vietnam would require political strength, willpower, integrity and skill. Num
At the end of World War II, Shoshanna, a survivor of Auschwitz, made her way home to Hungary. Of all her family, only she and one sister survived the camps. Years before, her young officer husband ha
Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother's belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? Why has her mother never mentioned this tiny book before?Fania's Heart reveals the story of the crafting of the heart, against all odds, within the confines of Auschwitz, and of the women of immeasurable resilience, courage and loyalty who risked their lives for Sorale's mother, their friend.
The famous martyr of Auschwitz (1941) who took the place of a condemned man. Before WW II, he worked mightily to conquer the world for Christ through Mary, desiring to save all souls in the world till
The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium.Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays that they would spend in each other’s company as Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians began governing as an official possessio
In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy.Drawing on h
本書文本研究的理論基礎主要來自於希利斯‧米勒關於小說中的社群理論研究，特別是《小說中的社群》(Communities in Fiction)和《社群的爆燃：奧斯維辛前後的小說》(The Conflagration ofCommunity: Fiction before and after Auschwitz)。米勒在《小說中的社群》中通過具體文本分析提出了被重新定義的現代社會的社群(community)概念。他認為是社群的錯位(dislocation)、分解(dissolution)和爆燃(conflagration)構成了“現代社會最痛苦而嚴峻的證詞(testimony)”。文學社群的概念不是希利斯‧米勒首先提出的，更早可以追溯到雷蒙德‧威廉姆斯(Raymond Williams)、馬丁‧海德格爾(Martin Heidegger)和讓‧盧克‧南希(Jean-Luc Nancy)等人。但是米勒首先運用這一理論大量分析文學作品，他的文本細讀方式給筆者很多啟發。筆者認真研讀米勒所寫文章，研究他如何用後現代社群理論對特羅洛普、哈代、康拉德、伍爾夫、皮欽翁和塞萬提斯的經典小說進行評論，體會如何識別小說中的社群表現。對這種虛構的非實體化社群的研究目的，用米勒的觀點說，就是“以新的方式看待自己所在的社群，並做出相應的改變”。筆者遵循本體闡釋的思路，學習和參照米勒的研究方法，著力點在於對庫切文本的比較與分析以及作品與作者的關係研究。研究庫切文本中的社群觀念就是研究他如何在小說維度裡關注當下人類的需求――人性的光輝與堅韌優雅的情懷。 本專著分上中下三篇。上篇題目為：庫切――其人； 中篇題目為：庫切――其作品；下篇題目為：庫切――其同道。上篇主要介紹筆者與之交往、近距離觀察到的庫切，目的是展現一個多維立體的作家庫切。中篇則是通過解讀庫切近些年的文本，特別是他的耶穌三部曲系列，具體剖析庫切文本中具有反思性和批判性的後現代社群觀念建構過程，同時側重從中國學者的角度進行思考和品評。下篇主要針對庫切自己所寫文論，以及他對其他作家的關注，挑選出典型作家，將庫切文本與這些作家的作品進行比較研究。 總體而言，本書主要關注點涉及庫切作品中所提煉出來的有關社群問題的三個方面：移民問題，教育問題，和包容差異的能力問題。文學從來不是被動地傳達信息，而是主動地在讀者與歷史、個人與社會之間發揮媒介作用，
