Incredible: in 2017, workers discovered tens of thousands of pages written in Yiddish in the pipes of the disused organ of St. George's Church in Vilnius.
Among these papers, survivors of Nazi looting and then the destruction ordered by Stalin in 1948, were autobiographical manuscripts of young Jews from the 1930s. Six of them are featured in this fascinating graphic documentary.
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The author, Ken Krimstein, 65 years old, American press cartoonist, for the
New Yorker
in particular, who created a comic strip on Hannah Arendt, another on Kafka and Einstein, has skill and talent.
It was necessary to extract the substance of these stories, to deploy them, to explain them while retaining their freshness of tone, to depict the turbulent world of “Yiddishland”, 10 million Jews from Eastern Europe torn between their traditions. and modernity.
In the preface, the author tells how these texts were collected by the prestigious intellectual center…
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