And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the HolocaustOf the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust, at least 160,000 were Sephardim: descendants of Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. Although the horror of the camps was recorded by members of the Sephardic community, their suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world. With this collection, their long silence is broken. And the World Stood Silent gathers the Sephardim's French, Greek, Italian, and Judeo-Spanish poems, accompanied by English translations, about their long journey to the concentration and extermination camps. Isaac Jack Lévy also surveys the 2,000-year history of the Sephardim and discusses their poetry in relation to major religious, historical, and philosophical questions. Wrenchingly conveying the pathos and suffering of the Jewish community during World War II, And the World Stood Silent is invaluable as a historical account and as a documentary source. |
Contents
A Brief History of the Sephardim | 1 |
Hatred Hurt Them into Poetry | 19 |
Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust | 51 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust Isaac Jack Lévy No preview available - 1989 |
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