And the World Stood Silent
Subtitle: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780252015809
Subjects: Poetry & poets; General; History / Holocaust; Poetry; Special Subjects In Literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Ladino poetry; Sephardim; Translations into English
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.