Freedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
TitelFreedom and death: the Jews and the Greek 'Andartiko'
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0436
Objectnummer09083l
Plaats van uitgaveNew York, New York, United States
UitgeverBerghahn
Jaar van uitgave
2014
Pagina'spp224-237
MateriaalArtikel
ReeksMaking sense of history ; Volume 19
ISBN9781782384410
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish histories of the Holocaust : new transnational approaches' pp224-237
Beschrijving
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.