Overview

Full Product Details

9780814344361

Table of Contents

Reviews

"The book is important as war literature and as prisoner-of-war literature and deserves a wide reading. The writing is graphic and the horrors of war are presented in a manner that few will forget. Hell on Earth is a vivid reminder that the tragedy of war never should be forgotten or minimized. It is a book to read and on which to reflect. Those who do so will not be disappointed. --Timothy J. Demy ""Naval War College Review"" This harrowing novel by one of the most unique war novelists in modern Hebrew literature is a chilling account of the horrors of WWI, which proved an all too real rehearsal for the Second World War only a few decades later. Hameiri's horrendous experiences as a war prisoner are recounted with a chilling directness that becomes especially haunting as a prelude to the Holocaust. It is also one of the only literary accounts of Jewish soldiering prior to the establishment of Israel that expresses some of the paradoxes of Jewish existence in the modern era and of Zionism as a radical response to it. A profound and important book. --Yaron Peleg ""Kennedy-Leigh Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge"""

Author Information

Peter C. Appelbaum is professor emeritus of pathology at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. After more than four decades in infectious disease research, he is spending his retirement years writing and translating books on modern-day Jewish military history. He is the author of Loyalty Betrayed and Loyal Sons and, together with James Scott, has translated a bilingual anthology of war essays and poems by Kurt Tucholsky. Broken Carousel, his bilingual anthology of German-Jewish soldier poems is forthcoming. Avner Holtzman is a professor of Hebrew literature in Tel-Aviv University and a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Hebrew literature written between the nineteenth century and the present day. His research encompasses a wide variety of issues, but most of it is dedicated to prominent figures of the modern Hebrew literary canon. He published comprehensive editions of the writings of H. N. Bialik and M. Y. Berdichesky, as well as critical biographies of these two writers. His publications in English include editing the Hebrew literature section of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. His latest book is Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available