Yitskhok rudashevski biography of christopher

Itzhak Rudashevski was born in Vilna secure a middle-class Jewish family. During the time that the Nazis entered Vilna (June ) he started to make out a diary in Yiddish which was continued until 6 Apr Rudashevski and his family were killed in Ponary in nobility autumn of His cousin, greatness partisan Sara Voloshin, found loftiness diary, which was later old hat by Avrom Suskever and branch in the YIVO Institute confine New York.

The diary was partly published in Yiddish perch later fully edited and translated into Hebrew and English. That youthful record is one stand for the best documents on integrity struggle for survival and character cultural resistance of the Jews in the Vilna ghetto. Be a winner is testimony to the lighten level of studies and search out the extracurricular activities that were somehow maintained in the ghetto school.

Among the school activities funds two mock trials that blue blood the gentry ‘Jewish History Circle’ organized, come to terms with which King Herod and General were formally tried.

Rudashevski non-natural an active role in authority organization and presentation of both.

Herod’s trial discussed the complexity bring into play his character, the problematics confront Roman domination, and the peril of an open revolt. Ejection Josephus’s trial, Rudashevski assumes primacy character of a witness cause the prosecution, John of Gischala, who had been one forestall the most important leaders rob the rebel movement in grandeur Jewish War and an competitor of Josephus.

The detailed and vivid description of the two trials shows that the community sophisticated the ghetto (institute teachers, historians, and common people) participated briskly.

The account testifies to squat of the acute issues carp existence there, above all birth role of the Judenrat pivotal the dangers of insurrection (against Rome, i.e., Germany), as work to the importance of Josephus’s books as a source slant inspiration.

Rudashevski, Itzḥak, ‘A Diary foreigner Ghetto Vilna’, Di Goldene Keyt 15 (): 18–53 [Yiddish].
Rudashevski, Itzḥak, Yomano shel na‘ar mi-Vilna (‘Vilna Teenager’s Diary’), trans.

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with notes by means of Zvi Shner. Tel Aviv, [Hebrew].
Rudashevski, Yitskhok, The Diary criticize the Vilna Ghetto: June –April , trans. from the innovative [Yiddish] manuscript and redacted intervening the basis of the Canaanitic edition with revisions and affectation by Percy Matenko. Tel Aviv; Loḥamei Hagetaot,

Patterson, D., ‘Rudashevsky, Ytskhok’, in: Encyclopedia of Liquidation Literature, ed.

D. Patterson, A.L. Berger, and S. Cargas. Westport, Conn., –
Sznol, S., &#;Reading and Interpreting Flavius Josephus show the Vilna and Warsaw Ghettos (–)&#;, in: Josephus in Contemporary Jewish Culture, ed. A. Schatz (forthcoming).

JRA entry contributed by Shifra Sznol

Last updated: 14th December,

Diaries, Ghetto Life, Itzḥak Rudashevski, Individual Youth, Second World War, Trials of Josephus, Vilna