Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide

Credits

Credits Jacob Glatstein, “Good Night World.” Reprinted from The Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn, translated by Richard J. Fein, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1988 by the Jewish Publication Society. Dan Pagis, “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car” and “Footprints.” Reprinted from Points of Departure by Dan Pagis, translated by Stephen Mitchell, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1982 by the Jewish Publication Society. Nelly Sachs, excerpt from “If I Only Knew.” Translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead. Reprinted from O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs. Translation copyright © 1967, renewed by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Ilya Selvinsky, “Kerch” (1942). Russian original copyright by the Estate of Ilya Selvinsky. English translation copyright by Maxim D. Shrayer. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Maxim D. Shrayer. Abraham Sutzkever, “A bliml.” Reprinted with permission of Rina Sutzkever Kalderon. Abraham Sutzkever, “Mother.” From Burnt Pearls: Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever, translated by Seymour Mayne. Copyright 1981 by Mosaic Press, Oakville, Ontario, www.mosaic-press.com. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Abraham Sutzkever, “No Sad Songs Please.” Translated by C. K. Williams. Reprinted from The Literature of Destruction, edited by David G. Roskies, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1989 by the Jewish Publication Society. Abraham Sutzkever, “Song for the Last.” Translated by C. K. Williams. Reprinted from The Literature of Destruction, edited by David G. Roskies, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1989 by the Jewish Publication Society. A section of chapter 4 originally appeared as “Dividing the Ruins: Communal Memory in Yiddish and Hebrew,” by David G. Roskies, in After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence, edited by David Cesarani and Eric J. Sundquist (London: Routledge, 2012), pages 82–101. Reprinted with permission. ...