Od Megili życia do Megili cierpienia. Polska edycja Dzienników A.Ch. Kaplana
From the Megillah of life to Megillah of suffering. Polish Edition of A. Ch. Kaplan’s Diaries.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the work on the first full edition of a Polish translation of Chaim A. Kaplan’s Diaries. The translation will ultimately cover 3,000 pages of the Hebrew manuscript, corresponding to the period from 1935 to 1942, out of which the chronicles concerning the pre-World War II years have never been published yet. The segment of translation presented in the article comes from the period from the 1st to 20th of September 1939, during which the Kaplan’s Diaries undergo a transformation from a personal diary to a record of the annihilation. It shows the complexity of the realities of wartime Warsaw, while at the same time showing the complexity of Kaplan’s character and his work, where a chronicler’s ambition vies with the traditional Jewish formula of commemorating national tragedies.

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