Scroll of Agony

Scroll of Agony
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 0253335345
ISBN-13 : 9780253335340
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Book Synopsis Scroll of Agony by : Chaim Aron Kaplan

Download or read book Scroll of Agony written by Chaim Aron Kaplan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaim Aron Kaplan, born in 1880 in Belarus, wrote his "Megillat yissurin" ("Scroll of Suffering") in the Warsaw ghetto. A Zionist who emphasized the role of history in Jewish culture, he wrote his diary in Hebrew for future historians, but lost his belief in God and feared that his diary may serve no purpose if the entire Jewish nation is annihilated. He was killed in Treblinka in 1942.


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