Thoughts on Reading “The Medem Sanatorium Book”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND
6. We Polish Jews 3
7. Naftole Herts Kon: The Tragic Enthusiasm 9
8. Notes and Reflections on the Fate of the Written Word 17
9. The Yiddish Folk Song in Polish Translation 23
10. HOLOCAUST
11. The Hidden Source of a People’s Survival: Writings from the Ghettos and Camps 33
12. On the Ninetieth Birthday of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum: Recollections and Summing Up 43
13. Janusz Korczak, Pedagogical Researcher 52
14. Anka: To Her Eternal Memory 63
15. Thoughts on Reading “The Medem Sanatorium Book” 69
16. ARTS AND LETTERS
17. Bruno Schulz, Artist and Jew 75
18. Vasily Grossman: The History of a Book or the Path to Jewish Identity 88
19. Reyzl Zhikhlinski: On Her Poetry 99
20. A Visit to Chana Orloff 104
21. Czajka: The Painful Path to Self-Discovery 112
22. Ber Mark, The Man and the Author: On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of His Death 116
23. Moyshe Shulshteyn: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death 124
24. FABLES, SHORT STORIES, AND HISTORIC FICTION
25. All Because of the Wife or The First Quarrel 131
26. The Rebbetzin’s Sense of Justice 134
27. With Tevye the Dairyman in the Underground 141
28. Animals and Humans 149
29. The Jew Who Came Late 156
30. The Last Night 162
31. Unfinished Pages: Excerpt 170
32. The Debate between Paper and Letters: A Tale 175
33. EPILOGUE
34. Notes on the Underground: Lili Berger’s Reflections on Marranism 181
35. Cultural Figures Named in the Text 199
36. Biographies of Editors and Translators 203
37. Books by Lili Berger 207
38. Bibliography 209