Freedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
TitelFreedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
Verfasser
Call number940.5318/0436
Inventarnummer09083l
ErscheinungsortNew York, New York, United States
VerlagBerghahn
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Seitenpp224-237
MaterialArtikel
SerieMaking sense of history ; Volume 19
ISBN9781782384410
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish histories of the Holocaust : new transnational approaches' pp224-237
Beschreibung
The author, in examining the Sonderkommando revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau, argues that the Greek Jews leading the failed revolt perhaps did so under the shadow of Flavius Josephus himself, or at least medieval readings of Josephus, as well as 19th century Greek lore, internalized by Greece's Jews, that emphasized a fight to the death. He suggests that the Greek Jewish Birkenau revolt might one day, at least in a literary sense, take its place amid the Jewish canon of the Holocaust.