H-Judaic TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader Discussion published by Rafael Chaiken on Friday, July 27, 2018 SUNY Press is pleased to annouce the July publication ofWriting in Witness: A Holocaust Reader, edited by Eric J. Sundquist. The book is a comprhensive survey of the most important writing to emerge from the Holocaust. It will be of interest to instructors of courses in Holocaust literature, memoir, and history. A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture, edited by Ezra Cappell. Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions at http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6583-writing-in-witness.aspx (a full description is online). Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Sources and the Text Prisoners: A Prologue Victor Klemperer, The Yellow Star Jean Amery, Torture Anonymous Warsaw Man, A Warsaw Jew Writes to His Gentile Friend Yehoshua Moshe Aaronson, The Scroll of the House of Bondage Hilda Dajč, Letters from a Concentration Camp in Serbia Odd Nansen, A Decent Man Yitzhak Katzenelson, Vittel Prison Diary Ella Lingens‑Reiner, Prisoners of Fear Abraham Levite, For an Auschwitz Anthology In the Ghetto Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein), Good Night, World Citation: Rafael Chaiken. TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader. H-Judaic. 07-27-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/2102604/new-book-writing-witness-holocaust-reader Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Judaic Samuel Golfard, “One must write with blood” Avraham Tory, Kovno Diary—Roundup and Murders at the Ninth Fort Herman Kruk, Vilna Diary—Eyewitness to Murder at Ponary Abraham Sutzkever, Three Poems from the Vilna Ghetto Oskar Rosenfeld, Starvation in the Ghetto Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh, Lekh‑Lekho Anonymous Łodź Boy, “To ease my bitter heart” Emanuel Ringelblum, “Why is the world silent?” Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll of Agony Gusta Davidson Draenger, Resistance in Krakow The Final Solution Lidia Maximovna Slipchenko, Mass Murder in Odessa Piotr Rawicz, Blood from the Sky Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Massacre, Resistance, and Rescue Philip Mechanicus, “Inside the belly of the venomous snake”: Transports from Westerbork Alexander Donat, “Hell has no bottom”: Majdanek Kurt Gerstein, Witness at Belżec Seweryna Szmaglewska, Slave Labor and Death in Birkenau Primo Levi, “The saved and the drowned”: The Prominents and the Muselmanner Abraham Krzepicki, Transport to Treblinka Rachel Auerbach, The Road to Heaven Oskar Strawczynski, The Treblinka Orchestra Paul Celan, Death Fugue Citation: Rafael Chaiken. TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader. H-Judaic. 07-27-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/2102604/new-book-writing-witness-holocaust-reader Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-Judaic The Gray Zone Chaim Rumkowski, “Give me your children” Josef Zelkowicz, “The heart of a slaughterer”: The Jewish Police at Work Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer? Sara Nomberg‑Przytyk, The Block of Death Gisella Perl, Childbirth in Auschwitz‑Birkenau Szlama Winer, Inside the Chełmno Death Camp Zalmen Gradowski, “In the deep sea of corpses”: The Czech Transport Holy Days Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem David Kahane, “How shall we sing the Lord’s song?” Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, “Love God with all your heart”: The Lesson of Rabbi Akiva Zelig Kalmanovitch, “What is a Jew and who is a Jew?” Etty Hillesum, “The thinking heart of a whole concentration camp” Anonymous Warsaw Poet, And I Will Impart My Revenge upon Edom Abel J. Herzberg, Jewish Faith, Jewish Unity Survivors Hanna Levy‑Hass, Last Days of Bergen‑Belsen Robert Antelme, Death March through Germany Jorge Semprun, “But can the story be told?” Charlotte Delbo, The Stream Yekhiel Kirshnbaum, The City without Jews Elie Wiesel, Why I Write Citation: Rafael Chaiken. TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader. H-Judaic. 07-27-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/2102604/new-book-writing-witness-holocaust-reader Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 3 H-Judaic Ruth Kluger, Still Alive Aharon Appelfeld, The Awakening Notes Selected Bibliography Index Citation: Rafael Chaiken. TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader. H-Judaic. 07-27-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/2102604/new-book-writing-witness-holocaust-reader Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 4.