Bread for the departed
By: Bogdan Wojdowski ; translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine ; foreword by Henryk Grynberg.
Contributors: Levine, Madeline G.
Series: Jewish lives
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Description: 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.