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Nitzotz : The Spark of Resistance in Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp / edited and with an introduction by Laura M. Weinrib ; translated by Estee Shafir Weinrib.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion, theology, and the Holocaust.
- Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Dachau--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Germany--Dachau.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Germany--Dachau--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Kaunas--Influence.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century.
- Nitzotz.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. During the Soviet occupation of Kovno and, after the German invasion, within the Kovno ghetto, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, Nitzotz (Spark). In its pages, they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlement in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was liquidated, several contributors to Nitzotz were deported to the Kaufering satellite camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did not lay down their pens. Nitzotz is the only Hebrew-language publication known to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation anywhere in Europe. Its authors believed that their intellectual defiance would insulate them against the dehumanizing cruelty of the concentration camp and equip them to lead the postwar effort for the physical and spiritual regeneration of European Jewry. Laura Weinrib presents this remarkable document to English readers for the first time. Along with a translation of the five remaining Dachau-Kaufering issues, the book includes an extensive critical introduction. Nitzotz is a testament to the resilience of those struggling for survival.
- Contents:
- The voice of resistance
- Introduction to Nitzotz
- The making of an underground
- Reading Nitzotz
- Liberation and legacy
- Nitzotz
- Nitzotz, issue 3 (38) (1944)
- Nitzotz, issue 4 (39) (1945)
- Nitzotz, issue 5 (40) (1945)
- Nitzotz, issue 6 (41) (1945)
- Nitzotz, issue 7 (42) (1945).
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815651611
- 0815651619
- OCLC:
- 821725590
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