1st Edition
Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity
By Amy Simon
Copyright 2023
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.
It re-centers the daily experiences of psychological and physical violence that made up ghetto life and that ultimately led victims to use their diaries as a place of agency to... Read more
1. Introduction: Reading Ghetto Diaries 2. The Cities and Their People 3. The Art of Cruelty 4. Censure and Casting Out 5. The Deepening Darkness 6. Conclusion: Humanity, Expectation, Agency, and Morality
Biography
Amy Simon holds the Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University. She writes about Holocaust diaries and pedagogy, including the article, "Imperfect Humans and Perfect Beasts: Changing Perceptions of German and Jewish Persecutors in Holocaust Ghetto Diaries" (2020).
