Yitskhok rudashevski biography sample
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The Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture
Itzhak Rudashevski was born in Vilna into a middle-class Jewish family.
Yitskhok rudashevski biography sample
When the Nazis entered Vilna (June 1941) he started to write a diary in Yiddish which was continued until 6 April 1943. Rudashevski and his family were killed in Ponary in the autumn of 1943. His cousin, the partisan Sara Voloshin, found the diary, which was later received by Avrom Suskever and deposited in the YIVO Institute in New York.
The diary was partly published in Yiddish and later fully edited and translated into Hebrew and English. This youthful record is one of the best documents on the struggle for survival and the cultural resistance of the Jews in the Vilna ghetto.
It is testimony to the high level of studies and of the extracurricular activities that were somehow maintained in the ghetto school.
Among the school activities are two mock trials that the ‘Jewish History Circle’ organized, in which King Herod and Joseph