Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps

This book is a pioneering study of Yiddish and Polish-Jewish concentration camp and ghetto poetry. It reveals the impact of the immediacy of experience as a formative influence on perception, response, and literary imagination, arguing that literature that is contemporaneous with unfolding events offers perceptions different from those presented after the fact.

Documented here is the emergence of poetry as the dominant literary form and quickest reaction to the atrocities. The authors shows ...