Holy Week
A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Andrzejewski, Jerzy
Swan, Oscar E. (INT)
Gross, Jan (FRW)
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BOOK SUMMARY
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over
BOOK SYNOPSIS
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki, his pregnant wife, and his younger brother reside. Added to his dilemma is the broader context of Poles attitudes toward the Jewish question and the plight of the Jews locked in the ghetto during the final moments of its existence. Few fictional works dealing with the war have been written so close in time to the events that inspired them. No other Polish novel treats the range of Polish attitudes toward the Jews with such unflinching honesty. Jerzy Andrzejewskis Holy Week (Wielki Tydzien, 1945), one of the significant literary works to be published immediately following the Second World War, now appears in English for the first time.
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There is among people no greater or more absolute dividing line than between the happiness of some and the suffering of others. Affairs great and small divide people, yet none so sharply as the inequality of fate. from Holy Week
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ISBN: 0821417169
Dewey Decimal: 891.8/537
Library of Congress: 2006024584
Book Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 149
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