The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 01/15/1989
ISBN: 9780827604148
Pages: 668
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 9.96h x 6.92w x 1.79d