May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych - Paperback

by Rachmil Bryks (Author), Bella Bryks-Klein (Afterword by), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (Afterword by)

May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912-1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Lódz and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.

Author Biography

Rachmil Bryks was author of seven Yiddish-language books and contributed extensively to the Yiddish press.

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator, and is the recipient of the 2012 Yiddish Book Center Translation Prize and the 2014-2017 Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.