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Chargement... Zagare: Litvaks and Lithuanians Confront the Past (édition 2014)par Sara Manobla
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. A touching book that has enormous amounts of first hand material condensed into a story. This book really reminds the reader just how fresh the wounds are for many in the areas hardest hit by the eradication programs that were used by the Nazi's, and just how effective they were in certain localized areas. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The author tells of the atrocities that occurred in Zagare, Lithuania during WW II. She also tells of what she, and a group she was part of, did to help the town of Zagare meet its present needs. This book provides important historical information. I found it to be an interesting read. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The subtitle of this book is very accurate. It is not so much a book about the distinguished Jewish/Yiddish Litvak cultural tradition n pre-World War II Lithuania, nor the destruction of that culture by the Nazis and the Lithuanian collaborators, though both these are discussed, it is chiefly about how Jews descended from the Jewish LItvak tradition and modern post-Soviet Lithuanians have come together to respond to their sometimes contested understanding of the past. The author worked with the group Lothiania LInk which assisted Lithuania and Zagare in particular after the fall of Communism, but has also worked to promote recognition in contemporary Lithuania of both the Litvak culture and the role of some Lithuanians in its destruction. On the whole, itnis a positive book culminating in a ceremony in Zagare which unveiled a monument in the town square which recorded the destruction of the town's Jews (and the Lithuanian part in it) much ,ore openly than other commemorations (which tend to be in the isolated sits where most of the massacres took place, and o downplay the Liithuania aid to the Nazis.) The most awkward issue is the Lithuanian doctrine of the "double genocide" --of Jews by Nazis and Lithuanians (and many other Eastern Europeans) by the Soviets, which many contemporary Jews see as a way to devalue the unique suffering of the Jews. The author does try to be fair-minded about this and concede there was genuine suffering of Lithuanians at others at the hands of the Soviet regime, though she argues it was a matter of working people to death for economic reasons, not ethnic ones. I think this is not entirely accurate. It is of course true that the Soviets (like the Nazis) made extensive use of slave labor, but their victims were often chosen for ethnic or political reasons, and by no means all were merely worked to death --many were simply shot, as in the notorious Katyn massacre of Polish officers, which was clearly not economically motivated but intended to destroy potential supporters of Polish independence. It is just to say the Soviets never attempted to exterminate every Lithuanian or every Pole or every member of other nationalities, but they were quite prepared to exterminate those who resisted Soviet domination. On the eastern front, there were few good moral choices aside from the handful of Tolstoyans honored in this book for rescuing Jews. If one was not a pacifist, the options were fighting for the Nazis or fighting for the Soviets. That Lithuanians who had just been conquered by the Soviets chose to fight alongside the Nazis, and Jews who ha just escaped the Nazi/Lithuania holocaust chose to fight for the Soviets, were both fighting beside people who were committing unspeakable atrocities, but there really was not other viable option at the time. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Given that I travel to small villages that have been scarred by the Holocaust, this book was one I was very pleased to receive.I have a friend who has actually been to Zagare and we were able to discuss the book at length. It is a well written, personal account of one family trying to trace their roots and piece together the past, and more than that, reach out to the region that their family was from. A beautiful account of discovering and remembering places and people. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little did she realise that her contact with the Jews of the Soviet Union would become the start of her own voyage of self-discovery. Her commitment to the cause of the refuseniks and her involvement with them once the gates of emigration opened and they arrived in Israel eventually led to an exploration of her own family history. Together with her cousin, she embarked on a roots journey to Zagare, a little shtetl on the border between Lithuania and Latvia. Here she met Isaac Mendelssohn, the sole survivor of the town's Jewish community. Unexpectedly, a meaningful and fruitful relationship developed between Isaac, a group of descendants and a group of local inhabitants, a relationship always shadowed by memories of the slaughter in 1941 of Zagare's Jewish population by Nazis and local Lithuanian collaborators. The culmination came in 2012 with a joint project of the two groups to erect and dedicate a memorial plaque in the centre of the town. As part of her desire to accept Zagare, Sara Manobla followed up on the story of an elderly Jewish woman and her granddaughter who had been rescued and hidden by a Zagarean family during the Nazi occupation. She tracked down the granddaughter, now living in Jerusalem, and her testimony resulted in the Zagarean family being posthumously honoured by Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority as Righteous among the Nations. The book ends on a note of hope and reconciliation, as this account of a search for roots leads to a coming to terms with today s highly charged relationship between Lithuanians and Jews. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I admit I was a bit disappointed in this book. I just didn't find it very interesting, and it seemed to be too much Lithuania and too little Holocaust. The author talked about her efforts about forming ties between Communist Lithuania and the West, including forming a nonprofit organization called Lithuania Link, and there wasn't nearly as much there about Holocaust remembrance as the book description made it out to be. However, there isn't a lot out there about the Holocaust in Lithuania (which had a higher death rate than any other nation in Europe; 95% of Lithuania's Jews were killed), particularly about what happened after the war, so I can recommend it on those grounds. ( )