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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-10081014557X
ISBN-139780810145573
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057245074
Product Key Features
Book TitleFlames from the Earth : a Novel from the Lódz Ghetto
Number of Pages184 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicJewish
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorIsaiah Spiegel
Book SeriesNorthwestern World Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-041769
Reviews"Levinson's beautiful, poetic translation of Isaiah Spiegel's novel, Flames from the Earth , makes a significant contribution to Holocaust, Jewish, Polish, and Yiddish studies. The dreamy, Symbolist style of the work adds to our repertoire of Holocaust literature, largely dominated by realism. The emphasis on the physical setting, the cinematic use of color, the animation of inanimate objects, and references to worlds of enchantment belong to developments in Yiddish and European modernism. Historical, biographical, and literary-historical framing and contextualization lay out the relevant information about the author, this novel, its place in Holocaust literature, the history of the lódz Ghetto, and other important facts in a clear, succinct style, accessible to the intended audience." --Harriet Murav, author of David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity, "Levinson's beautiful, poetic translation of Isaiah Spiegel's novel, Flames from the Earth , makes a significant contribution to Holocaust, Jewish, Polish, and Yiddish studies. The dreamy, Symbolist style of the work adds to our repertoire of Holocaust literature, largely dominated by realism. The emphasis on the physical setting, the cinematic use of color, the animation of inanimate objects, and references to worlds of enchantment belong to developments in Yiddish and European modernism. Historical, biographical, and literary-historical framing and contextualization lay out the relevant information about the author, this novel, its place in Holocaust literature, the history of the lódz ghetto, and other important facts in a clear, succinct style, accessible to the intended audience." --Harriet Murav, author of David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal839.134
Table Of ContentTranslator's Introduction List of Books by Isaiah Spiegel Flames from the Earth Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Translator's Afterword Acknowledgments Notes
SynopsisFlames from the Earth is an autobiographical novel by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust, depicting the complex web of relationships in and around the lódz Ghetto., An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding of Holocaust literature and testimony Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the lódz Ghetto is an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust. Originally published in Israel in 1966, the novel brings together material that Spiegel wrote while imprisoned in the lódz Ghetto, which he recovered from a cellar when he returned from Auschwitz after the war. The only works by Spiegel previously available to English readers have been short stories. In this, his first novel, Spiegel explores a complex web of characters in and around the lódz Ghetto: Vigdor and Gitele, lovers who are involved in the ghetto resistance movement; Nicodem, a Polish priest, who hides a member of the Jewish underground; Stefan Kaczmarek, a Polish tavern keeper who betrays Nicodem to preserve his own smuggling business; Franz Jessike, a Nazi guard who blackmails local Poles for personal gain; and Chaim Vidaver, the heroic leader of the ghetto resistance. Based largely on historical events, the novel's lyrical style echoes its emotional intensity. Gripping and atmospheric, Flames from the Earth honors daring acts of heroism and human connections forged amid unthinkable conditions. Spiegel's novel represents an important contribution to the archive of literary depictions of historical trauma.
LC Classification NumberPJ5129.S6812F513
