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The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw - The Afterlife of the Revolt (Paperback)
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The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw - The Afterlife of the Revolt (Paperback)
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The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt by Avinoam
J. Patt analyzes how the heroic saga of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
was mythologized in a way that captured the attention of Jews
around the world, allowing them to imagine what it might have been
like to be there, engaged in the struggle against the Nazi
oppressor. The timing of the uprising, coinciding with the
transition to memorialization and mourning, solidified the event as
a date to remember both the heroes and the martyrs of Warsaw, and
of European Jewry more broadly. The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw
includes nine chapters. Chapter 1 includes a brief history of
Warsaw from 1939 to 1943, including the creation of the ghetto and
the development of the Jewish underground. Chapter 2 examines how
the uprising was reported, interpreted, and commemorated in the
first year after the revolt. Chapter 3 concerns the desire for
first-person accounts of the fighters. Chapter 4 examines the ways
the uprising was seized upon by Jewish communities around the world
as evidence that Jews had joined the struggle against fascism and
utilized as a prism for memorializing the destruction of European
Jewry. Chapter 5 analyzes how memory of the uprising was mobilized
by the Zionist movement, even as it debated how to best incorporate
the doomed struggle of Warsaw's Jews into the Zionist narrative.
Chapter 6 explores the aftermath of the war as survivors struggled
to come to terms with the devastation around them. Chapter 7
studies how the testimonies of three surviving ghetto fighters
present a fascinating case to examine the interaction between
memory, testimony, politics, and history. Chapter 8 analyzes
literary and artistic works, including Jacob Pat's Ash un Fayer,
Marie Syrkin, Blessed is the Match, and Natan Rapoport's Monument
to the Ghetto Fighters, among others. As this book demonstrates,
the revolt itself, while described as a ""revolution in Jewish
history,"" did little to change the existing modes for Jewish
understanding of events. Students and scholars of modern Jewish
history, Holocaust studies, and European studies will find great
value in this detail-oriented study.
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