Description
Author: Compiled and edited by Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides; Afterword by Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher: Viking Adult
Year: 1989
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Condition: Like New; dust jacket bright and unclipped, now protected in new Brodart archival cover; binding tight; pages clean and unmarked.
Description:
A powerful and meticulously assembled documentary history of the Lódz Ghetto, one of the most isolated and tightly controlled Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Drawing from diaries, letters, official German records, underground writings, memoirs, and rare photographs, Lódz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege reconstructs daily life within the ghetto from 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. Voices of laborers, children, leaders, and ordinary residents emerge in chronological sequence, revealing a community attempting to survive under starvation, forced labor, deportations, and systematic destruction.
Compiled by Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides for the Jewish Heritage Writing Project, the volume became the source book for the acclaimed documentary film of the same name. The afterword by literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman situates the work within Holocaust testimony and memory scholarship.
A significant primary-source-based work for collectors of Holocaust history, World War II studies, Jewish studies, and twentieth-century European history.
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