Benjamin Paloff

Bio

Benjamin Paloff is the author of Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe and of the poetry collections And His Orchestra and The Politics. He has also translated several books and shorter works from Polish, Czech, and Russian. He is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

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Can You Tell Me How to Get to the Warsaw Ghetto?

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© 2017 Johns Hopkins University Press “An enormous cap of dark grey smoke above the Extinct City in the Capital maintains, with the weight of its material, the reality of the fiction that is the emptiness: the City in the City, the City that no longer is.” —Stanisław Śreniowski, a Jewish historian living in hiding on the “Aryan” side, recalling the Ghetto Uprising [1] In the courtyard behind the apartment building at 55 Sienna Street, one can still visit a rare fragment of the wall that, for a...

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Poland World War II Jewish History