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During the first two decades of Israel’s existence, few literary works sought to actualize the human experiences of the Holocaust by transmuting them into a poetic discourse that would make them emotionally and intellectually accessible.
Lara Rabinovitch • Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
Here was Aunt Rosa, the mother notes of one photograph, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, and cancerous growths until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
