Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Poetry

by Holly Mandelkern

Overview

BENEATH WHITE STARS: HOLOCAUST PROFILES IN POETRY features Holly Mandelkern’s narrative poetry about real people from the Holocaust whom she has known personally or whose stories she has taught. Melding historical detail and keen insights with the grace of poetry, she brings to life a wide variety of individuals struggling against the horrors of the Holocaust. In these pages children are sent from home to face new lands alone, teens risk their lives to resist in ghettos and forests, prisoners rise above the miseries of ghettos and concentration camps through art, and diplomats and clergy employ their wiles to save all those they can. Brief biographical sketches, maps, and a personalized timeline further animate these courageous individuals. (NOTE: in this E-book version, the reference maps and the illustrations at the beginning of each chapter are in color.)

Illuminated by Byron Marshall’s pen and ink drawings, BENEATH WHITE STARS: HOLOCAUST PROFILES IN POETRY opens a unique window on bright lights that shone even in the darkest of times.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154128602
Publisher:	Holly Mandelkern
Publication date:	04/17/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Holly Mandelkern is a poet, lecturer, librarian, and educator with a special interest in Holocaust studies. Holly grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in European history and from Florida State University with a graduate degree in library science. She traveled to Poland and Israel in 1991 to study Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and, with other educators, took classes with some of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars. Inspired by the survivor, founder, and leader of the program, Vladka Meed, Holly taught about Jewish resistance and related topics for twenty years at the Summer Teachers Institute at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida and at other locations in Winter Park, Florida. BENEATH WHITE STARS combines this history with her passion for poetry to tell the stories of those who resisted in a new way. In October 2015 Holly completed the three year intensive Twelve Chairs Advanced Poetry Course. The winner of the 2016 Thomas Burnett Swann Award, Holly has published poetry in journals of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Florida State Poets’ Association, and the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Association of Florida. Her most recent writing appears in Yeshiva University’s Spring 2016 PRISM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS, which features her poetry about prominent survivor Roman Kent and a discussion of her process of writing historical poetry. Holly speaks at many community, cultural, and religious events. After teaching Jewish Studies for twenty years at her synagogue, she currently serves on the Judaic Studies Advisory Board at the University of Central Florida.