The Testing of Hanna Senesh - Hardcover

Ruth Whitman; Livia Rothkirchen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814318533 ISBN 13: 9780814318539

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1986

Synopsis

In poetry and prose, Ruth Whitman recreates the last nine months in the life of Hanna Senesh-poet, pioneer, and hero of World War II. Having immigrated to Palestine in 1939, Hanna later decided to return to her native Hungary to help save its Jewish population from the Nazis. She trained with the British Intelligence, parachuted into Yugoslavia, and eventually slipped across the border to Hungary. Tragically, the very next day she was denounced by an informer. After nine months of imprisonment, interrogation, and torture, Hanna Senesh, aged twenty-three, was executed. She left behind a legacy of poems and her diary. Her work is now part of the folk heritage of Israel. Ruth Whitman has written an inspiring postscript to Hanna's diary. Based on research and interviews with Hanna's family, friends, and fellow parachutists, the book begins where time and circumstance forced Hanna to leave off. The result is a sensitive portrait of a remarkable woman.

About this title

Book Description

In poetry and prose, Ruth Whitman recreates the last nine months in the life of Hanna Senesh-poet, pioneer, and hero of World War II.

About the Author

Ruth Whitman is a widely published poet, author, and translator. She has published two books on poetic method. Her translations include The Selected Poems of Jacob Glatstein and An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry. Whitman is lecturer in poetry for Radcliffe Seminars of Radcliffe College. She holds an M.A. From Harvard University.

Livia Rothkirchen, former editor of the Yad Vashem Studies, is the author of many monographs on the Jews of Eastern Europe and The Destruction of Slovak Jewry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814318533
• ISBN 13: 9780814318539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120