Literature as Lifeline: What were Jews Reading and Writing in the Ghettos?

By :  Edna Friedberg 91快播 Alum (Kekst Graduate School), Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; 91快播 Fellow Posted On Jun 15, 2020 / 5779 | Monday Webinar Times of Crisis and Possibility

Part of the series, “Times of Crisis and Possibility”

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During the Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of Jews were imprisoned in urban prison zones known as ghettos. Reading and writing offered a form of spiritual sustenance to these communities under siege. This is an exploration of the literature that Jews passed around the ghettos鈥搉ovels, poetry, religious commentary, and even dark humor.

With Dr. Edna Friedberg, 91快播 Fellow and Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

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