
Scrolls of Testimony
Abba Kovner(Author)
Jewish Publication Society (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-8276-0710-1 (ISBN)
Description
Scrolls of Testimony is a profoundly moving chronicle of the Holocaust. The author, award-winning Israeli writer Abba Kovner, intended this book as an almost liturgical account of the greatest tragedy to befall the Jewish people, and he wrote it in the Jewish tradition of megillot, or scrolls. Taken together, the pages are reminiscent of the Talmud, with the central text surrounded by notes and excerpts of poetry and prose. Scrolls of Testimony reads like a suspense novel - powerful, dramatic and compelling - but it is more than that. It is the testimony of the author woven with others' eyewitness accounts, diary entries, poems, and even last wills and testaments. Many of these were carefully recorded and hidden during the war at great personal risk to the writers, who desperately wanted to record the unfathomable events unfolding around them.
Reviews / Votes
"Many survivors have written about the Shoah, as have many talented writers, but a sacred account offered by one who is both a survivor and a gifted author is a genuine treasure."-Publishers Weekly Publishers WeeklyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8276-0710-1 (9780827607101)
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