„Our suffering as a testimony for future generations” Cover Image
  • Price 4.50 €

„Our suffering as a testimony for future generations”
„Our suffering as a testimony for future generations”

Author(s): Doru Pop
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Gulag; Holocaust; detention memories; repression; resistance; Nicolae Steinhardt; Richard Wurmbrand.

Summary/Abstract: This essay is a comparison between the writings and biographies of Romanian authors of Jewish origin, who survived the Communist penitentiary and repression. Richard Wurmbrand and Nicolae Steinhardt are two foremost authors of prison memoirs. Their cultural legacy lies in what we identify in this paper as „the paradoxical inheritance”. We do so by looking comparatively at their overt anti-communist stance, their open sense of Christianity, and their incorporation of this into their Jewish origins. The comparison between Steinhardt and Wurmbrand is designed to provide an account of the legacy that the survivors of Communist repression left behind: courage, happiness and unconditional faith in humanity.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 115-121
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English