Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows

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University of Massachusetts Press, 1988 - 153 pages
Occasionally an accident of research produces a book more engaging than the one the historian originally intended. While sifting through material for his Ph.D. dissertation, which dealt with an entirely different topic, Eisen came across a diary from the Vilna ghetto written by Zelig Kalmanovitch. His tone was sober, but not entirely so. The passage that caught Eisen's eye concerned a playground erected around 1942 and the author's inner conflict surrounded the coexistence of games and sports and mass murder in the ghetto.

À propos de l'auteur (1988)

George Eisen teaches at California State Polytechnic University. He is a contributor to Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning, edited by Gary Alan Fine, and author of Understanding Leisure.

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