This volume describes the lives of the novel's protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life. Although horrendous experiences are depicted, the light of faith in the human spirit shines through this novel's every page. This novel is the winner of the 1972 J. J. Segal Prize and the 1979 Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature, published in 1985, Cloth, English-language edition, Globe Press, Australia.

About the Author
Chava Rosenfarb is a Holocaust survivor who has published poetry, prose, and drama in both English and Yiddish. Her English titles include Bociany and Of Lodz and Love. She now resides in Alberta, Canada.

Reviews
A work that rises to the heights of the great creations of world literature and towers powerfully over the Jewish literature of the Holocaust. - Jury decision for the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature ""You give artistic meaning to an epoch of Jewish experience that is so unbelievably brutal that it is not possible for those who were never there to grasp the full breadth of its horrors. Your manner of conveying the ghetto life is, however, of such scope and literary power that the reader feels himself to be living with you."" - Jury Decision for the J. J. Segal Prize for Yiddish and Hebrew Literature



Book Information
ISBN 9780299209247
Author Chava Rosenfarb
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 577g