Weight: 0.500 kg
Zelig Kalmanovich (1885–1944) was a scholar, translator, one of the leaders of YIVO, and a figure whom many in the Vilna Ghetto called a prophet.
In the diary he kept in the Vilna Ghetto, he reveals not only the daily life of the ghetto, the hopes of its people, and their efforts to preserve humanity under inhuman conditions, but also reflects on why such a tragedy befell the Jewish nation and what future awaited Jewish culture after the war. This publication brings together a testimony assembled from fragments and scattered parts of a manuscript dispersed by the turmoil of history, today preserved in Vilnius and New York.
Translator: Olga Lempert
Editors: Stanislovas Stasiulis, Saulė Valiūnaitė
