Description
Occasionally an accident of research produces a book more engaging than the one the historian originally intended. While sifting through material for his Ph.D. dissertation, which dealt with an entirely different topic, Eisen came across a diary from the Vilna ghetto written by Zelig Kalmanovitch. His tone was sober, but not entirely so. The passage that caught Eisen's eye concerned a playground erected around 1942 and the author's inner conflict surrounded the coexistence of games and sports and mass murder in the ghetto.
Author: George Eisen
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 01/11/1990
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.91w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780870237089
ISBN10: 087023708X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Jewish | General
Author: George Eisen
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 01/11/1990
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.91w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780870237089
ISBN10: 087023708X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Jewish | General
About the Author
George Eisen teaches at California State Polytechnic University. He is a contributor to Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning, edited by Gary Alan Fine, and author of Understanding Leisure.