Great Regulars: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City

(Yale University Press), an encyclopedic study by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak, is a monument to that saving principle. The book, published in Polish in 2001 and now translated into English by Emma Harris, offers a decisive answer to Milosz's despairing poem. Far from leaving no words "in any human tongue," Engelking and Leociak show, the Jews who lived and died in the Warsaw Ghetto left so much evidence and testimony that we can reconstruct their world in amazing detail.

from Adam Kirsch: Tablet: Atrocious Normalcy

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