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David Bergelson
"Among the finest prose stylists in Yiddish literature, David Bergelson (1884-1952) was caught up in many of the twentieth century's most defining events. In 1909 he emerged as a pioneer of modernist prose, observing the slow decay of the Tsarist empire. In 1917 he welcomed the Revolution, but the bloodshed of the ensuing Civil War and the dogmatism of the Bolsheviks drove him to emigration. For more than a decade (1921-1934), he lived in Weimar Germany, travelling extensively in Europe and the United States. Shocked by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, disheartened by the decline of Yiddish culture in the West, and inspired by Soviet promises to create a Jewish republic, Bergelson became a Com...
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Legacy and Redemption
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1927 in Działoszyce, Poland. Relates his experiences in the Holocaust (pp. 105-161), including the expulsion of the town's Jews in September 1942 to Miechów, from where his mother was deported and killed. Tenenbaum survived a number of labor camps in or near Kraków, including Płaszów, doing forced labor along with his father and three brothers. He was then sent to the camps of Wieliczka, Mielec, Mauthausen, and Melk, as well as on a death march to Ebensee, where he was liberated. His brothers survived the Holocaust, but his father did not. After the war he became active in the Zionist Revisionist movement and helped smuggle Jews to Palestine. In 1951 he immigrated to North America, living in the U.S. and Toronto. Pp. 369-373 discuss the author's friendship with Elie Wiesel and pp. 421-427 his presence at the Holocaust denial trials of Ernst Zundel and James Keegstra.
David, My David
TERROR — inflicted by one’s own society — — dealt by one’s own neighbors — How does one person, simply trying to be “a good man,” conquer a rising maelstrom of mindless abuse, of hatred? David, My David is the saga of the victory over terror of Eduard Gottlieb Meyer. A musical prodigy born to a traditional Hessian, German farm-family in 1921, Herr Meyer tells of a life extending from his early, halcyon years through the inter-war period, the ravages of the Hitler Time and World War II, and beyond, into post-war, neglectful Europe and the increasingly bipolar, 20th-century America faced by his expansive, Texas family. On an odyssey marked by joy and sadness, despair and redemp...
