{"product_id":"along-the-edge-of-annihilation-the-collapse-and-recovery-of-life-in-the-holocaust-diary-david-patterson","title":"Along the Edge of Annihilation: the Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary - David Patterson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Dear finder, search everywhere, in every inch of soil. Tons of documents are buried under it, mine and those of other prisoners, which will throw light on everything that was happening here.\" —SALMEN GRADOWSKI, Auschwitz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were actually taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the writers did not survive. Patterson's book is unique not only in the number of diaries and original texts it examines but also in the questions it raises and in the approach it takes from within Jewish traditions and contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatterson has organized his book around a series of themes that lead to a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works for both their writers and their readers, affirming the Holocaust diary as a form of spiritual resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, he draws upon his impressive knowledge of Jewish texts, ancient and modern-Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, the medieval commentators, the Hasidic masters, and modern Jewish philosophers and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Along the Edge of Annihilation David Patterson illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe shows how they chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the Inferno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Patterson helps us to understand the various factors that motivated individuals to take up their pens even at the risk of their lives. Christians and Jews will be deeply moved and deeply educated by this work.\" —MILTON TEICHMAN, Marist College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies and is Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. His numerous books include Sun Turned to Darkness:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMemory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir; In Dialogue and Dilemma with Elie Wiesel; and The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Washington Press 1999, paperback\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SJM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44943653109829,"sku":"21","price":49.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/along-the-edge-of-annihilation-the-collapse-and-recovery-of-life-in-the-holocaust-diary-david-patterson-holocaustdiary-1-4693271.jpg?v=1777668368","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/along-the-edge-of-annihilation-the-collapse-and-recovery-of-life-in-the-holocaust-diary-david-patterson","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}