Who will write our history?
Subtitle: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
By: Samuel D. Kassow.
Series: The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780253349088
Subjects: Ringelblum, Emanuel, -- 1900-1944; Oyneg Shabes (Group); Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History; Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Description: "In 1940 the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity." "Who Will Write Our History? tells the gripping story of Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression. The Germans, confident of victory, assumed that they would determine how future generations remembered the Jews. Through his heroic efforts, Ringelblum insured that even if he and his comrades perished, future generations would rely on Jewish and not Nazi sources to study the last chapters of Polish Jewry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From "Bichuch" to Warsaw; title: Borochov's disciple; title: History for the people; title: Organizing the community : self-help and relief; title: A band of comrades; title: The different voices of Polish Jewry; title: Traces of life and death : texts from the archive; title: The tidings of job; title: A historian's final mission.