Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Samuel D. Kassow (Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 2007), xiii + 547 pp., 34.95
In November of 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum, along with a handful of clandestine collaborators, began to collect the material that eventually would comprise the famous Oyneg Shabes Archive. By 1942 it had become apparent to this group of professional and amateur historians that by assemblin...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 485-487 |
| Review of: | Who will write our history? (Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2007) (Sinnreich, Helene J.)
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| Summary: | In November of 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum, along with a handful of clandestine collaborators, began to collect the material that eventually would comprise the famous Oyneg Shabes Archive. By 1942 it had become apparent to this group of professional and amateur historians that by assembling this diverse repository of data on Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto they “might be writing the last chapter of the eight-hundred-year history of Polish Jewry” (p. 210). Faced with this grim reality, the archivists redoubled their efforts and even added their own last testaments to the collection. As one noted, “What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground” (p. 3). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp047 |