A we mnie płonie duchowa świeca”. Rabin Josef Guzik i jego dziennik
And a spiritual candle is burning in me. " Rabbi Josef Guzik and his diary

Summary/Abstract: The author presents fragments of the diary of rabbi Josef Guzik’s from Dukla. In the introduction Farbstein characterizes the diarist and also discusses the tragic fate of the local Jewish community. Guzik kept his diary in hiding during 1943–1944. He wrote in Rabbinic Hebrew, using expressions and references to Jewish sources despite not having access to the books he was quoting. He treated writing as a mission to bear witness for the sake of the future generations. Josef Guzik’s writings go back and forth between the internal and the external world, revolving around four axes of time or space which intertwine in every entry. The original text did not survive. The incomplete copy of the diary is stored at Yad Vashem.

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