Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps

Index

A Aesthetics, 2, 29, 39, 99, lO3 Acmeists, 152 Aktion, 47, 48, lO3, 155 Anti-Fascist Block (Warsaw ghetto), 145 Anti-Semitism, 168 Apenszlak, Jakob, 173 AR. (revolutionary artists), 73 Arendt, Hannah, 146 Armja Krajowa (AK.; Home Army), 134, 162, 168 Armia Ludowa (AL.; People's Army),168 Art songs, 120 Aryan(s), 51, 57, 71, 175, 186 Auschwitz concentration camp, 145 Auto-da-fe, 143 Avant-Guard (theater; Lodz ghetto), 12 B Baal Shem Tov, 9 Ballads, 57, 111 Bau, Jozef "Camp Hospital" (Szpital obozowy ) by, 58-64 Index "Hunger" (Glod) by, 64-65 Bertenschlage~ 210 Beygelson, Dov, 125 Bialik, Chaim Nachman, 27-28, 83 influence on Sutzkever, 27, 144 "In the City of Slaughter" by, 144-45 Bialoszewski, Miron, lO2 Biblical references in poetry Katzenelson's, 5-6 Sutzkever's, 136, 141 Books, in Warsaw ghetto, 96 Borowski, Tadeusz, lO2 Borwich, Michal', 13, 71-72,83,96 Broyde, Kasriel, 10 Bruno, Giordano, 181-82, 184 Buber, Martin, 82 Buchenwald concentration camp, 63illus., 65illus., 206 c Cassirer, Ernest, 26 Catastrophists, 21 Causality, 50 Celan, Paul, 7, 8 CENTOS (organization in Warsaw ghetto), 100 236 a Index Children Lullabies for, 119-30 in Sutzkever's "The Teacher Mire," 106-117 Children's theater (in Warsaw ghetto), 201 Christianity, 182, 186-87 Cz~stochowa concentration camp, 191, 204, 209 Czerniakow, Adam, 40 D Dante, 34, 61 Dawidowicz Lucy, 96, 99, 133 Death imprint, 34 Dehumanization process, 154, 206, 207 Deportations, 48, 145 of children, 122 Despair, 104 Diaspora, 169-70 in Sutzkever's poetry, 137-142 in Szlengel's poetry, 50 Disaster complex, 28 Documentary poems, 14, 19, 21, 40,56 Donat, Alexander, 146, 153, 157 DP camps, 191, 199 DROR (Freedom; organization in Warsaw ghetto), 12, 95 E Edelman, Marek, 157 Einkesselung (encircling; in Warsaw ghetto), 47-48 Eiron, 154 Eitinger, L., 205 Eldorado (theater; in Warsaw ghetto), 12 Eliade, Mircea, 186 Ember image, 32, 39, 40 Enlightenment, 3 Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven, 32-33 F Fackenheim, Emil, 90 Famina (theater; Warsaw ghetto), 12 Folk songs, 120 Frye, Northrop, 106 G Gentile Polish poets Mitosz, Czesbw, 174-79, 181-88 Przybos, Julian, 73-77 Ghetto lexicon and colloquialisms, 39,56 Glatstein, Jacob, 7, 90 Glik, Hirsh, 11 God,6-7 and the crisis of faith, 6-7, 86-93 German sel£-divinization, 155 indifference of, 84 in poets, 80-81 in Sutzkever's "Chant of a Jewish Poet in 1943," 78-83 in Sutzkever's, "The Heart's Voice," 135-37 in Szlengel's "Counterattack," 156 in Szlengel's "It's High Time," 86-93 Great Chain of Being, 39, 56, 153 Greenberg, Eliezer, 6 Gross-Rosen concentration camp, 58 Grotesque, the in Bau's poetry, 62 in Sutzkever's poetry, 34, 57, no, 114 in Szlengel's poetry, 21, 49,51,92 Grynberg, Henryk, 1 Gurdus, Luba Krugman, 189 Index Q 237 H Halpern, Moyshe Leyb, 28 Hangings, 198 Hanukkah, 170 Hasidic(ism), 7-8, 87, 104 Haskalah,3 Hitler, Adolf, 146 Home Army (AR; Armja Krajowa), 162, 168 Howe, Irving, 6 I Introspectivists (In Zich; poetic movement), 4 Irony, 2, 23, 98, J in Jastrun's poetry, 182 in Mil'osz's poetry, 184 in Sutzkever's poetry, 33-34, 110, 113, 165 in Szlengel's poetry, 21, 24, 50, 56, 104, lOS, 152, 155 Jastrun, Mieczysl'aw, 5, 173 "Here Too as in Jerusalem" (Tu takte jak w Jerusalem), by 174, 179-84 Jeremiah, 6, 8 Jerusalem (ancient), 5, 170, 182 Jewish Combat Forces (ZOB; Zydowska organizac;a bo;owa), 145, 168, 171 Jewish unity, 143 Job,8 Judah (son of Jacob), 136, 141 Judah Maccabee, 170 Judenrat in Warsaw ghetto, 40,48 K Kaczerginski, Shmerke, 5, 12, 83 "Hush, Hush" ("Shtiler, Shtiler") by, 125-130 "March of the Partisans" ("Partizaner Marsh") by, 159-62 Kafka, Franz, 186 Kaplan, Chaim The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan b~ 9, 33-34, 50, 72 Kapo 59, 62, 197, 206, 209 Katzenelson, Itzhak, 5-6 By the Waters of Babylon by,S drama studio in Warsaw ghetto directed by, 12 on existence of God, 93 resistance in poetry of, 10-11 The Song of the Murdered Jewish People by, 89, 119, 131, 156-157 Khaliastre, Di ("The Gang"; literary movement), 4 Kiddush ha-Hayym, 81 Kiddush ha-Shem, 137 Kinemann, 209 Kishinev pogrom, 144 Kieyner Shtot 2a1, Der ("Small City Theater"; in Vilna Ghetto), 12 Klimov, Major General, 162 Komp1ety (secret private schools in Warsaw ghetto), 100, 200, 201...