And the World Stood Silent
Subtitle: SEPHARDIC POETRY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 5, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780252068614
Subjects: Jewish studies; Poetry texts & anthologies; The Holocaust; Anthologies (multiple authors); History / Holocaust; Poetry; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism
First sentence: To understand how the Jews of Sephardic tradition were affected by the Holocaust, and before embarking on a thematic study of the poetry and on the presentation of original poems and their English translations, we must first know something about the Sephardim, once the pride and glory of the Jewish nation.