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Born in Lanowitz, a small village in rural Podolia, Rokhl Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and a member of the Warsaw Yiddish literary community before the Holocaust. Upon the German invasion and occupation of Poland in 1939, she was tasked by historian and social activist Emanuel Ringelblum to run a soup kitchen for the starving inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and later to join his top-secret ghetto archive, the Oyneg Shabes. One of only three surviving members of the archive project, Auerbach's wartime and postwar writings became a crucial source of information for historians of both prewar Jewish Warsaw and the Warsaw Ghetto. After immigrating to Israel in 1950, she founded the witness testimony division at Yad Vashem and played a key role in the development of Holocaust remembrance. Her memoir WARSAW TESTAMENT, based on her wartime writings, paints a vivid portrait of the city's prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and of its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. "Rokhl Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, and one of only three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabes, historian Emanuel Ringelblum's top-secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Upon immigrating to Israel in 1950 she founded the witness testimony division at Yad Vashem and played a foundational role in the development of Holocaust memory. WARSAW TESTAMENT, a memoir based on her wartime writings both in the ghetto and on the Aryan side of the occupied city, provides an unmatched portrait of the last days of Warsaw's Yiddish literary and cultural community--and of Auerbach's own struggle to survive."Literary Nonfiction. History. Jewish Studies.

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Short Stories. Translated by Heather Valencia. Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann's stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland. With psychological insight and a focus on the tension between remembrance and reinvention, Mann provides indelible portraits of survivors as they confront the past and struggle to create a meaningful existence in the fledgling state of Israel.'You must hear me out: ' The urgent need to tell their stories drives several characters in this collection to force listeners into hearing something they would rather not know. Acclaimed Yiddish writer Mendel Mann tries to make sense of his own experience and that of his troubled twentieth century in these haunting accounts of men and women under pressure of love, war, vengeance and memory in places as far afield as the German-Russian war zone and a Bedouin desert encampment. Thanks to the Yiddish Book Center for bringing these stories to light.--Ruth Wisse, Emerita Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard UniversityIn these stories of disorientation and yearning, Mendel Mann traces the life of a survivor working backward--from coping, to trauma, to naiveté--in a Yiddish-language trajectory across time and place. By translating experiences from Poland, the Soviet Union, and Israel into his mother tongue, Mann also translates multilingual realities into literary form, recording the travails of an Eastern European Jew across the landscapes of the early to mid-20th century.--David Stromberg, Editor of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times

THE GLASS PLATES OF LUBIN features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. Taken between 1913 and 1930, they capture the teeming life of Lublin before the war, at a time when Jews composed a third of the city's population. The images include Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young lovers, workers, athletes, and everyday people who posed for a camera long ago never dreaming that their portraits would one day be of interest to anyone. Unearthed in 2010, the plates have been restored and are now exhibited at the Grodzka Gate--NN Theatre Centre in Lublin, where curator Piotr Nazaruk and his staff continue to work assiduously to identify their subjects and solve the mystery of the photographer who took them.Photography. Art. Jewish Studies.