On the Waves of Destiny

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jewish Life in Poland
We Polish Jews
Naftole Herts Kon: The Tragic Enthusiasm
Notes and Reflections on the Fate of the Written Word
The Yiddish Folk Song in Polish Translation

Holocaust
The Hidden Source of a People's Survival: Writings from the Ghettos and Camps
On the Nineteenth Birthday of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum: Recollections and Summing Up
Janusz Korczak: Pedagogue, Researcher
Ankeh: To Her Eternal Memory
Thoughts on Reading "The Medem Sanatorium Book"

Arts and Letters
Bruno Schulz: Artist and Jew
Vasily Grossman: The History of a Book, or the Path to Jewish Identity
Reyzl Zhikhlinski: On Her Poetry
Czajka
Czajka: The Painful Path to Self Discovery
Berl Mark, The Man and the Creator: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Death
Moyshe Shulshteyn: On His Tenth Yortsayt

Fables, Short Stories, and Historic Fiction
All Because of the Wife or The First Quarrel
The Rebbetzin's Sense of Justice
With Tevye the Dairyman in the Underground
Animals and Humans
The Jew Who Came Late
The Last Night
Unfinished Pages: Excerpt
The Debate between Paper and Letters: A Tale

Epilogue
Notes on the Underground: Lili Berger's Reflections on Marranism

Cultural Figures Named in the Text
Biographies of Editors and Translators
Books by Lily Berger
Bibliography

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• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• História social e cultural
• Estudos judaicos

Lili Berger; Yiddish literature; Jewish refugee writers; Holocaust essays; Post-war Communist Poland; Jewish history Poland; Jewish writers in Poland; Holocaust survivors; Yiddish fiction; women in literature