The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

by David Roskies

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780827604148
Publisher:	The Jewish Publication Society
Publication date:	01/15/1989
Pages:	668
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)