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Overview"May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In ""Those Who Didn't Survive,"" Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. ""The Fugitives"" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Łódź and elsewhere. In the final memoir, ""From Agony to Life,"" Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachmil Bryks , Yermiyahu Ahron Taub , Bella Bryks-Klein , Yermiyahu Ahron TaubPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781793621023ISBN 10: 1793621020 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 20 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsThose Who Didn’t Survive A Letter from Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon The Fugitives My Sacred Obligation by Hinde Bryks A Few Observations by Berl Kagan 1.This Is How It All Began 2.Fugitives 3.A Gas Nightmare 4.I Take Flight 5.Warsaw Bound 6.My Return to Łódź 7.In German Captivity 8.Theft, Torment, Murders 9.We’re Transferred to Germany 10. We’re Taken from the Camp—But Where? 11. In a Camp Near Kraków 12. In Camp Kobiezshin 13.Freedom Gained 14.In Skarżysko-Kamienna—New Troubles 15.In Koluszki 16.We Arrive in Łódź 17.At Home with Mordecai Gebirtig 18.Visit to Josef Wulf From Agony to Life 1.Deportation to Auschwitz 2.Transport to Germany 3.In Other Concentration Camps 4.The Wild Beast 5.The First Weeks 6.Laundry Day 7.A Gallows 8.New Germans, New Troubles 9. Episodes and Characters 10.Return to Camp Braunschweig 11.In Camp Wattenstadt 12.From “Switzerland” to a Death Camp 13.We’re Liberated Papa, As I Remember Him by Bella Bryks-Klein Rachmil Bryks: an Appreciation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Dramatis Personae Glossary Translator’s Notes Translator’s Acknowledgments About the Author About the Translator About the Author’s DaughterReviewsA searing set of memoirs that illuminates life in a twentieth century shtetl and the Jewish struggle for survival in wartime Lo dz and in the camps. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub's sensitive translation provides English-language readers with an opportunity to wander the same memoryscapes that Yiddish readers of Rachmil Bryks have long inhabited.--Justin Cammy, associate professor of Yiddish and world literatures, Smith College May God Avenge Their Blood isn't the same as other Holocaust memoirs. Rachmil Bryks describes his experiences in the camps but also offers an evocative description of the Jewish community destroyed by the Nazis. Bryks' warm portrayal of Jewish life in Skarzysko-Kamienna reveals a society rich in tradition while in the midst of significant change. Tales of Talmud study stand alongside stories of elopement and entrepreneurship. Bryks' depiction of the first weeks of the war, the second and longest section of this triptych, is unforgettable. Notably, Bryks describes everyone he encounters--Jews, Poles, Germans, peasants, writers, and others--with a deep empathy. May God Avenge Their Blood is perhaps most useful for anyone interested in interpersonal relations. Bryks's stories often confirm the deep antisemitism among many Poles but they also show many examples of human kindness. Bryks offers no analysis or final judgements, simply a description of what happened. Taub's achievement as a translator is more than the rendering of a text into a language more of us understand; it is an offering of a neglected source as a guide to a tragic past.--Sean Martin, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio Rachmil Bryks was one of the most talented young poets and authors who survived the Lo dz ghetto and concentration camps. Author of poetry and short stories, Bryks uses his writing to recreate and evoke the beauty, struggle, humor and tragedy of Jewish life in prewar and wartime Poland. Describing the numerous members of his extended family and their neighbors, he paints them realistically and warmly and not uncritically, so that the reader becomes invested in those hardworking, talkative, pious, humorous and argumentative Jews, who were virtually all brutally and cruelly murdered by the Germans and their henchmen. This is a short, but very worthy sampling of Bryks's writings that have not been previously available in English. Highly recommended.--Robert Moses Shapiro, Brooklyn College, translator of Isaiah Trunk, Lo dz Ghetto: A History Author InformationRachmil Bryks was author of seven Yiddish-language books and contributed extensively to the Yiddish press. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the recipient of the 2012 Yiddish Book Center Translation Prize and the 2014-2017 Modern Language Association’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel (2016). 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