Scrolls of Testimony
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780827607101
Subjects: Modern fiction; The Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Literary collections; Jewish - General; Holocaust; Historical - General; Jewish fiction
Description: "Scrolls of Testimony is a profoundly moving chronicle of the Holocaust. The author, award-winning Israeli writer Abba Kovner, intended this book as a quasi-liturgical account of the greatest tragedy to befall the Jewish people, and he wrote it in the Jewish tradition of megillot, or scrolls. Taken together, the pages are reminiscent of the Talmud, with the central text surrounded by notes and excerpts of poetry and prose.".

"Scrolls of Testimony is powerful, dramatic and compelling - the testimony of the author woven with others' eyewitness accounts, diary entries, poems, and even last wills and testaments. Many of these were carefully recorded and hidden during the war at great personal risk to the writers, who desperately wanted to record the unfathomable events before them. Regarded by many as one of the great masterpieces of Holocaust literature, Scrolls of Testimony is indeed a modern Jewish classic.

Kovner worked on the book until his death, and it remains his final tribute to the courage and dignity of the victims and a fulfillment of his promise to bring their testimony to future generations."--BOOK JACKET.