Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows

by George Eisen

Book Overview

Occasionally an accident of research produces a book more engaging than the one the historian originally intended. While sifting through material for his Ph.D. dissertation, which dealt with an entirely different topic, Eisen came across a diary from the Vilna ghetto written by Zelig Kalmanovitch. His tone was sober, but not entirely so. The passage that caught Eisen's eye concerned a playground erected around 1942 and the author's inner conflict...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087023708X
• ISBN13: 9780870237089
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"