Freedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
TitreFreedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0436
N° d'objet09083l
Lieu de publicationNew York, New York, United States
EditeurBerghahn
Année de publication
2014
Paginationpp224-237
MatérielArticle
SérieMaking sense of history ; Volume 19
ISBN9781782384410
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish histories of the Holocaust : new transnational approaches' pp224-237
Description
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.