#lexicographer — Public Fediverse posts

"In October 1943, #BerlKagan, a #Lithuanian #writer and #lexicographer, escaped from the #Kovno #ghetto to the forest with his wife, Raja. “Almost every story that the #Jewish child hears about ghosts and evil spirits has to do with the forest,” #Kagan observes. “And now – now we live in the forest, now we sleep in the forest, now the forest is our protector.” There they and others are concealed by two Lithuanian peasants, Tadeusz and Barbora Pocius. Kagan’s #journal was kept on the only paper he had at his disposal, a used butcher’s copybook. Kagan wrote “between the lines, and… made it look like a #Hebrew- #Yiddish song- #book”.

In his prologue, Kagan claims he wrote most of his journal “as the events happened or immediately afterward so that as much as possible of the hot breath of the actual experience would remain”. The result is a no-nonsense account of survival in extreme circumstances and what that reveals about character."

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/a-tale-of-survival-in-the-lithuanian-forest-t007baou

"In October 1943, #BerlKagan, a #Lithuanian #writer and #lexicographer, escaped from the #Kovno #ghetto to the forest with his wife, Raja. “Almost every story that the #Jewish child hears about ghosts and evil spirits has to do with the forest,” #Kagan observes. “And now – now we live in the forest, now we sleep in the forest, now the forest is our protector.” There they and others are concealed by two Lithuanian peasants, Tadeusz and Barbora Pocius. Kagan’s #journal was kept on the only paper he had at his disposal, a used butcher’s copybook. Kagan wrote “between the lines, and… made it look like a #Hebrew- #Yiddish song- #book”.

In his prologue, Kagan claims he wrote most of his journal “as the events happened or immediately afterward so that as much as possible of the hot breath of the actual experience would remain”. The result is a no-nonsense account of survival in extreme circumstances and what that reveals about character."

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/a-tale-of-survival-in-the-lithuanian-forest-t007baou

"In October 1943, #BerlKagan, a #Lithuanian #writer and #lexicographer, escaped from the #Kovno #ghetto to the forest with his wife, Raja. “Almost every story that the #Jewish child hears about ghosts and evil spirits has to do with the forest,” #Kagan observes. “And now – now we live in the forest, now we sleep in the forest, now the forest is our protector.” There they and others are concealed by two Lithuanian peasants, Tadeusz and Barbora Pocius. Kagan’s #journal was kept on the only paper he had at his disposal, a used butcher’s copybook. Kagan wrote “between the lines, and… made it look like a #Hebrew- #Yiddish song- #book”.

In his prologue, Kagan claims he wrote most of his journal “as the events happened or immediately afterward so that as much as possible of the hot breath of the actual experience would remain”. The result is a no-nonsense account of survival in extreme circumstances and what that reveals about character."

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/a-tale-of-survival-in-the-lithuanian-forest-t007baou

"In October 1943, #BerlKagan, a #Lithuanian #writer and #lexicographer, escaped from the #Kovno #ghetto to the forest with his wife, Raja. “Almost every story that the #Jewish child hears about ghosts and evil spirits has to do with the forest,” #Kagan observes. “And now – now we live in the forest, now we sleep in the forest, now the forest is our protector.” There they and others are concealed by two Lithuanian peasants, Tadeusz and Barbora Pocius. Kagan’s #journal was kept on the only paper he had at his disposal, a used butcher’s copybook. Kagan wrote “between the lines, and… made it look like a #Hebrew- #Yiddish song- #book”.

In his prologue, Kagan claims he wrote most of his journal “as the events happened or immediately afterward so that as much as possible of the hot breath of the actual experience would remain”. The result is a no-nonsense account of survival in extreme circumstances and what that reveals about character."

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/a-tale-of-survival-in-the-lithuanian-forest-t007baou

"In October 1943, #BerlKagan, a #Lithuanian #writer and #lexicographer, escaped from the #Kovno #ghetto to the forest with his wife, Raja. “Almost every story that the #Jewish child hears about ghosts and evil spirits has to do with the forest,” #Kagan observes. “And now – now we live in the forest, now we sleep in the forest, now the forest is our protector.” There they and others are concealed by two Lithuanian peasants, Tadeusz and Barbora Pocius. Kagan’s #journal was kept on the only paper he had at his disposal, a used butcher’s copybook. Kagan wrote “between the lines, and… made it look like a #Hebrew- #Yiddish song- #book”.

In his prologue, Kagan claims he wrote most of his journal “as the events happened or immediately afterward so that as much as possible of the hot breath of the actual experience would remain”. The result is a no-nonsense account of survival in extreme circumstances and what that reveals about character."

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/a-tale-of-survival-in-the-lithuanian-forest-t007baou