Bread for the Departed (Jewish Lives): Bread for the Departed / Tr. from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine - Softcover

Bogdan Wojdowski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810114569 ISBN 13: 9780810114562

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Wojdowski relates this Holocaust story in a complex mixture of standard Polish, slang, thieves' argot, Yiddish and Hebrew. This English translation includes a foreword by Henryk Grynberg, also a Holocaust survivor.

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Review:

"Bread for the Departed is without a doubt the best novel about the Warsaw Ghetto and one of the best literary depictions of the Holocaust." --Henryk Grynberg

From the Back Cover:

Bogdan Wojdowski's novel Bread for the Departed details the experience of the Jewish community in Warsaw between 1940 and 1942; the final chapters take place during the mass deportation of Warsaw's Jewish community to death camps. Episodic, chaotic as the teeming ghetto itself, the novel records the inexorable breakdown of morals and loyalties that accompanied the physical deterioration of the ghetto population.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810114569
• ISBN 13: 9780810114562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404