ROSKIES, DAVID - The Literature of Destruction Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

New York: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0827603142. DJ shows light shelf wear, with small 2cm tear to back bottom of DJ, repaired with archive-quality tape. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar. A heavy book - may require extra postage ; 10.1 X 7.8 X 2.4 inches; 652 pages; "David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions -- from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland." "Gathers short stories, diaries, sermons, essays, and poems written in response to the Spanish Inquisition, martyrdom, Russian pogroms, and the Holocaust". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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