{"product_id":"a-jew-in-the-woods-pages-from-a-diary-paperback","title":"A Jew in the Woods: Pages from a Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBerl Kagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMax Rosenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Frankel\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf the 35,000 Lithuanian Jews trapped by the Germans in the Kovno Ghetto, most did not survive. Berl Kagan, a 34-year-old journalist and political activist, was among the few who escaped the ghetto before it was liquidated. Yet this bid for freedom was only the first step in a protracted quest to cheat almost-certain death. With his wife and sister-in-law, Kagan spent nine months in the forest, facing near-starvation, freezing temperatures, and the ever-present threat of capture and murder. The Red Army was advancing-- but how many miracles would it take to see the day of liberation? Over the course of those dark, intrepid months, Kagan somehow kept a journal, recording his day-to-day life with unflinching lucidity and eloquence. The experience of Jews who fled to the woods of Eastern Europe during the Holocaust is little documented-- but here we have an electrifying, real-time account of, in the author's words, \" one long, horror-filled drama.\" Both riveting and ashimmer with moral beauty and hope, A Jew in the Woods is an astonishing testament to the resilience of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerl Kagan (Kahn) was a Jewish writer, lexicographer, bibliographer, editor, and Holocaust survivor whose postwar scholarship contributed significantly to the preservation and reconstruction of Eastern European Jewish history and Yiddish literature. Kagan's scholarly contributions are of considerable significance to the study of Jewish history and Yiddish literature. His Lexicon of Yiddish Writers (1986), received the National Jewish Book Award, and remains one of the most comprehensive reference works on Yiddish literary figures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Yiddish translator and editor of over twenty-five books, Max Rosenfeld was faculty at both Gratz College and the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, director of the Jewish Children's Folkshul in Philadelphia from 1963 to 1975, and a monthly columnist on \"Our Secular Jewish Heritage\" in Jewish Currents magazine for thirty years.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 149\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46813372580037,"sku":"9798998779862","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/9W4oMUVlEz9798998779862.webp?v=1787749027","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/a-jew-in-the-woods-pages-from-a-diary-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}