When the Menorah Fades / / Zvi Preigerzon; ed. by Alex Lahav.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Preigerzon, Zvi,
• HerausgeberIn: Lahav, Alex,
• MitwirkendeR: Shalom, Binyamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One --; Part Two
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644692493; 9783110688207; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644692493?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Zvi Preigerzon; ed. by Alex Lahav.

When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II. Based on interviews with the surviving residents of Hadiach, Zvi Preigerzon imagines the everyday experiences of ordinary Jewish people during the war. Interweaved with Hebrew and Yiddish expressions and songs, biblical metaphors, and Kabbalistic spiritual elements, a story emerges: resistance in the face of unimaginable cruelty.A former prisoner of Stalin’s Gulag, Preigerzon wrote this book in complete secrecy, even hiding its existence from his own family. It was originally published under a pen name in Hebrew in 1966 and now appears in English with an introduction by the author’s grandson.