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Translation of
Fun ash aroysgerufn
Written by Daniel Kac
Published in Warsaw, 1983
Emeritus Project Coordiantor: Brian Reiser
Our sincere appreciation to Daniel Kac for permission
This is a translation from: Fun ash aroysgerufn (Summoned from the ashes),
Written by Daniel Kac, published in Warsaw, 1983 (Y).
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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
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1. | * * * | 5 |
Distant Echoes | ||
2. | A Door to the Past | 9 |
3. | Our Shtetl [town] | 13 |
4. | Guests | 19 |
5. | It Returns to the Surface of Memory | 33 |
6. | Stains on the Face | 43 |
7. | Come Out, Vanished Figures | 47 |
8. | Friday at Night | 63 |
9. | A Metamorphosis of a Melody | 69 |
10. | The Benyamin Tribe from Kolki | 79 |
In Thirst of Knowledge | ||
11. | Our Youth | 93 |
12. | A Bit of an Actor in Every Life | 97 |
13. | Literary Evenings | 105 |
14. | Literary Trials | 111 |
15. | Kestl Ovntn | 119 |
16. | Our Mothers | 123 |
17. | Lines of History | 127 |
Lives and Names | ||
18. | Perl Tine Reports | 135 |
19. | What the Eyes Saw | 149 |
20. | Children and the Old | 173 |
21. | One of the Gentile Friends of the Jews | 187 |
22. | Two Who Were the Last | 195 |
On Life and Death | ||
23. | A Start at the Iron Avraham Sutzkever | 207 |
24. | In the Spanish Civil War | 209 |
25. | Against the Common Enemy | 215 |
26. | The Sweet and the Heroic | 219 |
27. | From the Stir, Through the Volga, to the Wisla [Vistula] | 223 |
28. | Two Sisters | 231 |
29. | Berl | 241 |
30. | Twins | 245 |
31. | A General Reports | 249 |
32. | A Second Time through Hell | 255 |
33. | Over Mountains, Through Valleys, Across All of the Seven Seas | 313 |
34. | With the Chapayev Detachment | 342 |
35. | Tempered in Fire | 354 |
36. | Kolker with the Kovpakovitses [Partisans - followers of Sydir Artemovych Kovpak] | 372 |
37. | Dear Names | 385 |
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