The Witness Trees: Lithuania

By Myra Sklares and Myra Sklarew

Book Overview

Tells through poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative the tangled web of Lithuanian Jewish history. This title reports on the events during the summer of 1941 when the Jews of Keidan, a Lithuanian shtetl village], were systematically massacred by local towns people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0845348906
• ISBN13: 9780845348901
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cornwall Books
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A moving historical narrative of Lithuanian Jewish history

Written by Myra Sklarew and translated into Yiddish by David Wolpe, The Witness Trees is an amazing bilingual (English/Yiddish) compendium of poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative of Lithuanian Jewish history. The Witness Trees includes Dovid Kartz's introductory essay on "Jewish Lithuania and a Shtel called Keidan", and David Wolpe's "The Destruction of Keidan". This is followed by a Preface, and then Myra Skalrew's "Lithuania". The Witness Trees is strongly recommended reading for students of Judaic and Holocaust Studies, as well as anyone with an interest in Yiddish literature and translation.