Freedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
TitoloFreedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
Autore
Call number940.5318/0436
Numero oggetto09083l
Luogo di pubblicazioneNew York, New York, United States
EditoreBerghahn
Anno di pubblicazione
2014
Paginazionepp224-237
MaterialeArticle
SerieMaking sense of history ; Volume 19
ISBN9781782384410
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish histories of the Holocaust : new transnational approaches' pp224-237
Descrizione
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.