arts & humanities

摘要

On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland staged a revolt against their Nazi oppressors, holding off 2,000 well-armed SS men for 28 days. In this critical, mostly chronological but also thematic study, Baskind (art history, Cleveland State Univ.; Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America) examines depictions of the uprising in American literature. There are memoirs and other nonfiction, such as Mac Davis's Jews Fight Too!; stories by Twilght Zone creator Rod Serling and Leon Uris's novel Mila 18; poetry from Emma Lazarus, Hayim Bialik, and others; radio dramas, including Morton Wishengrad's 1943 The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto; film, television, and theatre (H. Leivick's The Miracle of The Warsaw Ghetto); art (painting and illustration by Arthur Szyk, Jack Levine, and others); sculpture (including monuments); and comics (Joe Kubert, Bernice Eisenstein, Art Spiegelman). Finally, the author details how the Holocaust Memorial Museum portrays the revolt. VERDICT This vivid approach to an important event will be appreciated by students and scholars of the Holocaust as well as general readers.