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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of
eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other
documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps,
ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt
comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first
time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition
to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular
interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and
those interested in the history of Europe.
By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the
Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end
of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and
Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The
single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black
Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and
Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in
English in truncated editions. Because of its profound
significance, this new and definitive English translation of The
Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and
intellectual event.
From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman
collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book.
As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first
edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the
war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials
for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as
Russian).
Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the
daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the
manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg
include numerous documents that had been censored from the original
manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman
family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected
the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier
editions of The Black Book.
Shoah and Torah systematically takes up the task of reading the
Shoah through the lens of the Torah and the Torah through the lens
of the Shoah.The investigation rests upon (1) the metaphysical
standing that the Nazis ascribed to the Torah, (2) the obliteration
of the Torah in the extermination of the Jews, (3) the significance
of the Torah for an understanding of the Shoah, and (4) the
significance of the Shoah for an understanding of the Torah.The
basis for the inquiry lies not in the content of a certain belief
but in the categories of a certain mode of thought. Distinct from
all other studies, this book is grounded in the categories of
Jewish thought and Judaism-the categories of creation, revelation,
and redemption-that the Nazis sought to obliterate in the
Shoah.Thus, the investigation is itself a response to the Nazi
project of the extermination of the Jews and the millennial
testimony of the Jews to the Torah.
By the time Joseph Chaim Brenner arrived in London (where Out of
the Depths was written) in 1904, his literary reputation was
already established by a volume of short stories and a previous
novel, In Winter. Born in Russia in 1881, Brenner at the age of
twenty-four had fled the disorders of the Russian Empire for the
mean peace of London's East End. Out of the Depths is concerned
with a group of Russian immigrants in London who work for a Jewish
daily newspaper. They are caught up in a conflict with the owner
when he seeks to introduce a typesetting machine into the newspaper
shop. Following an unsuccessful strike, the impoverished workers
decline into a general collective misery that is relieved only by
the strength and honesty of the central character. The language of
Out of the Depths has a remarkably modern energy. Brenner
anticipates literary techniques that came into wide use only later.
The employment of stream of consciousness, shifting perspectives,
and emotive presentation and the use of vocabulary from the
Yiddish, Russian, German, and English languages have a startling
impact, a texture that Dr. Patterson faithfully captures while
conforming to the demands of English idiom. Employing an ancient
language in a modern idiomatic style, this little-known work by a
writer of remarkable honesty gives intense expression to the social
upheavals of the time and to the profound moral questioning that
for some was almost a consequence of living in the first years of
this century. David Patterson's translation of Out of the Depths
received the Webber Prize for translation in 1989.
John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933--1950 explores
the early part of John Cagea (TM)s life and career, concentrating
on the "pre-chance" period from roughly 1933 to 1950. These essays
consider influences on Cagea (TM)s work, his early percussion
pieces, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward an ideology
that would later shape his own work, arguing that a reevaluation of
this early period is crucial to understanding his later work. It
includes contributions from an international group of music and art
scholars.
This book provides a well-structured, lyrical, and fictionalized
account of the narrator's earlier years in the village of Bialik's
birth. It describes the awakening curiosity of the gifted child,
his wonder at the riddle of the mirror, and his inability to read
the symbols of the alphabet.
Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows
that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are
altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western
speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish
thought are holiness, divinity, humanity, prayer, responsibility,
exile, dwelling, gratitude, and language itself.
While the Hebrew language is central to the investigation, the
reader need not have a knowledge of Hebrew in order to follow it.
Essential reading for students and scholars of Judaism, this book
will also be of value to anyone interested in the categories of
thinking that form humanity's ultimate concerns.
What makes Jewish thought Jewish? This book proceeds from a view of
the Hebrew language as the holy tongue; such a view of Hebrew is,
indeed, a distinctively Jewish view as determined by the Jewish
religious tradition. Because language shapes thought and Hebrew is
the foundational language of Jewish texts, this book explores the
idea that Jewish thought is distinguished by concepts and
categories rooted in Hebrew. Drawing on more than 300 Hebrew roots,
the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and
categories that are altogether distinct from those that
characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key
categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, divinity,
humanity, prayer, responsibility, exile, dwelling, gratitude, and
language itself. While the Hebrew language is central to the
investigation, the reader need not have a knowledge of Hebrew in
order to follow it. Essential reading for students and scholars of
Judaism, this book will also be of value to anyone interested in
the categories of thinking that form humanity's ultimate concerns.
John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the 'pre-chance' period between 1933 and 1950 that crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic and his movement toward the ideology that shaped his later work.
In this book, David Patterson offers original insights into the
dynamics that underlie the phenomenon of endemic antisemitism,
arguing that in all its manifestations, antisemitism is
fundamentally anti-Judaism. Structured in a unique matrix of
chapters that are linked historically and theoretically, his book
elucidates the interconnections that tie antisemitism with the
Holocaust, as well as the Judaism that the Nazis sought to
obliterate from the world. As Patterson demonstrates this is an
ongoing effort and is the basis of today's antisemitism. Spelling
out the historical, theological, and philosophical viewpoints that
led to the Holocaust and that are with us even now, he offers
insights into the basis of the hatred of Jews that permeates much
of today's world. Patterson here addresses the 'big questions' that
define our humanity. His volume is written for those who wish to
have a deeper understanding of both the history and the current
manifestations of Antisemitism.
This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of
Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding
from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David
Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of
temptations, the temptation to be as God, and thus to flee from an
absolute accountability to and for the other human being.
Among the topics explored in this book are ways of viewing the
soul, the relation between body and soul, environmentalist thought,
the phenomenon of torture, and the philosophical and theological
warrants for genocide. Presenting an analysis of abstract modes of
thought that have contributed to genocide, the book argues that a
Jewish model of concrete thinking may inform our understanding of
the abstractions that can lead to genocide. Its aim is to draw upon
distinctively Jewish categories of thought to demonstrate how the
conceptual defacing of the other human being serves to promote the
murder of peoples, and to suggest a way of thinking that might help
prevent genocide.
By the time Joseph Chaim Brenner arrived in London (where Out of
the Depths was written) in 1904, his literary reputation was
already established by a volume of short stories and a previous
novel, In Winter. Born in Russia in 1881, Brenner at the age of
twenty-four had fled the disorders of the Russian Empire for the
mean peace of London's East End. Out of the Depths is concerned
with a group of Russian immigrants in London who work for a Jewish
daily newspaper. They are caught up in a conflict with the owner
when he seeks to introduce a typesetting machine into the newspaper
shop. Following an unsuccessful strike, the impoverished workers
decline into a general collective misery that is relieved only by
the strength and honesty of the central character. The language of
Out of the Depths has a remarkably modern energy. Brenner
anticipates literary techniques that came into wide use only later.
The employment of stream of consciousness, shifting perspectives,
and emotive presentation and the use of vocabulary from the
Yiddish, Russian, German, and English languages have a startling
impact, a texture that Dr. Patterson faithfully captures while
conforming to the demands of English idiom. Employing an ancient
language in a modern idiomatic style, this little-known work by a
writer of remarkable honesty gives intense expression to the social
upheavals of the time and to the profound moral questioning that
for some was almost a consequence of living in the first years of
this century. David Patterson's translation of Out of the Depths
received the Webber Prize for translation in 1989.
This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of
Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding
from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David
Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of
temptations, the temptation to be as God, and thus to flee from an
absolute accountability to and for the other human being.
Among the topics explored in this book are ways of viewing the
soul, the relation between body and soul, environmentalist thought,
the phenomenon of torture, and the philosophical and theological
warrants for genocide. Presenting an analysis of abstract modes of
thought that have contributed to genocide, the book argues that a
Jewish model of concrete thinking may inform our understanding of
the abstractions that can lead to genocide. Its aim is to draw upon
distinctively Jewish categories of thought to demonstrate how the
conceptual defacing of the other human being serves to promote the
murder of peoples, and to suggest a way of thinking that might help
prevent genocide.
Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers
to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy,
following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. In this
revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim's rigorous
pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the
Holocaust. Fackenheim's writing sheds light on the tensions between
Jewish thinking and German philosophy, illustrating how elements of
the latter were used by the Nazis to justify Jewish annihilation.
In addition, he emphasizes the important implications of defining
Jewish philosophy as its own entity, separate from the tenets of
the Jewish cultural tradition.
The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in
modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the
very basis of community - the experience of exile. No one in the
modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness.
Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow
in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how
are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these and related
questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought
over the last century and a half. By "exile" he means not only a
form of punishment but an existential condition. Drawing on texts
by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and
Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including
Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the
political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual,
metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. Thus he pursues the
connections between exile and identity, identity and meaning,
meaning and language. Patterson shows that the problem of meaning
in human life is a problem of homelessness, that the effort to
return from exile is an effort to return meaning to the word, and
that the exile of the word is an exile of the human being. By
making heard voices from the Russian wilderness, Patterson makes
visible the wilderness of the world.
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