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Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg's Jews are French...
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A storyteller's take on the Talmud and the timeless wisdom contained within its tales provides "a fresh look at an ancient source" (Kirkus Reviews).
A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother's and her husband's egos to preserve their family. Stories such as these enliven the pages...
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University of Texas Press
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2023.
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English
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"In 2012, Darling began photographing and interviewing the aging and rapidly vanishing population of Holocaust survivors who spent time at the German transit camp and ghetto located at Terez©Ưn, a former eighteenth-century military garrison located north of Prague. Many of those imprisoned there were awaiting transport to certain death at Auschwitz and other extermination camps. His sitters were sometimes asked to accompany him to the location of...
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