TY - JOUR
TI - What was being read during the holocaust? On the novel the forty days of musa dagh in the context of the jewish resistance movement
AU - Romanik, Weronika
TI - What was being read during the holocaust? On the novel the forty days of musa dagh in the context of the jewish resistance movement
AB - The article examines a possible perception of Franz Werfel’s novel Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Jewish readers in the ghettos during the Second World War. The archival documents from that time as well as postwar testimonies of Holocaust survivors indicate that the novel was popular especially among young people and members of the Jewish resistance movement. People in the ghettos could easily relate to the events described in a book about the Armenian genocide and even identify themselves with Werfel’s characters. The core documents for the analysis are materials from the Underground Archive of the Białystok Ghetto, including the writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff. 
VL - 2017
IS - Nr 2 (40)
PY - 2018
SN - 1506-9729
C1 - 2450-0100
SP - 209
EP - 235
DO - 10.4467/24500100STJ.17.010.8245
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/co-czytano-w-czasie-zaglady-refleksja-nad-powiescia-czterdziesci-dni-musa-dah-w-kontekscie-zydowskiego-ruchu-oporu
KW - Jewish resistance movement
KW - Second World War
KW - ghetto
KW - Franz Werfel
KW - Musa Dagh
KW - Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff
KW - Białystok Ghetto