Strange things are happening up in the sky. First, a windstorm blows in, so powerful that roof after roof is torn from its joists and sails off into the night; the few brave souls who venture outdoors ...

"Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories: True Tales From the Holocaust and Life After" by Henryk Grynberg. Translated from Polish by Alicia Nitecki. Edited by Theodosia Robertson. (Penguin Books, 2002 ...

Ruth Franklin is associate literary editor of the New Republic. Toward the end of Henryk Grynberg’s story “I Am From Auschwitz,” a woman who survived the Holocaust laments the lack of interest that ...

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Biography: In 1933, T.S. Eliot remarked in passing that "reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable" if one wishes to develop a tradition. He was ...

On November 19, 1942, the great Polish author Bruno Schulz left his home in the Jewish ghetto of Drohobycz—according to the generally accepted version of the story, he had gone to fetch a ration of ...

The life of the Polish Jewish author Bruno Schulz was, by pedestrian measures, a small one. It ended prematurely in 1942, when he was murdered in the street at the age of 50 by a Gestapo officer, and ...

I cannot imagine what my father went through during the Holocaust. Which always comes to mind on Tisha B’Av. Which we observed yesterday. A couple of years ago I described the harrowing story of how ...