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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940–1942 Chava Rosenfarb Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler Library of American Fiction "A work that rises to the heights of the great creations of world literature and towers powerfully over the Jewish literature of the Holocaust." —Jury decision for the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature This volume describes the lives of the novel's protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life. Although horrendous experiences are depicted, the light of faith in the human spirit shines through this novel's every page. "You give artistic meaning to an epoch of Jewish experience that is so unbelievably brutal that it is not possible for those who were never there to grasp the full breadth of its horrors. Your manner of conveying the ghetto life is, however, of such scope and literary power that the reader feels himself to be living with you."—Jury Decision for the J. J. Segal Prize for Yiddish and Hebrew Literature Chava Rosenfarb (1923–2011) was a Polish Holocaust survivor who published poetry, prose, and drama in both English and Yiddish. Her English titles include Bociany and Of Lodz and Love. From 1950 until her death she lived in Canada. The Tree of Life trilogy won the international Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature, the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation, and the Georges Bugnet Award for fiction from the Writers Guild of Alberta. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) The UW Press also publishes: The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939 The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book Three: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942–1944

October 2005 LC: 2004053592 PJ 408 pp.   6 x 9   map, glossary Paper $21.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-20924-7 ADD TO CART   A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press Read these fantastic articles by Goldie Morgentaler about writing with her mother, Chava Rosenfarb: Love & Translation: Mother and Daughter Became Their Own Literary Enterprise and My Mother’s Life: How Chava Rosenfarb survived the Lodz ghetto to write a masterpiece about the experience.

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