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And The World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry Of The Holocaust
Author: Translator Levy, Isaac J.; Contributor: Levy, Isaac J.
Paperback; 2 Illustrations
248 pages
Published: May 2000
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252068610

Of the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust, at least 160,000 were Sephardim: descendants of Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. Although the horror of the camps was recorded by membersof the Sephardic community, their suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world. With this collection, their long silence is broken.And the World StoodSilent gathers the Sephardim's French, Greek, Italian, and Judeo-Spanish poems, accompanied by English translations, about their long journey to the concentration and extermination camps. Isaac Jack Levy also surveys the 2,000-year history of the Sephardim and discusses their poetry in relation to major religious, historical, and philosophical questions.Wrenchingly conveying the pathos and suff


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