When the Menorah Fades
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When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II. Based on interviews with the surviving residents of Hadiach, Zvi Preigerzon imagines the everyday experiences of ordinary Jewish people during the war. Interweaved with Hebrew and Yiddish expressions and songs, biblical metaphors, and Kabbalistic spiritual elements, a story emerges: resistance in the face of unimaginable cruelty.
A former prisoner of Stalin’s Gulag, Preigerzon wrote this book in complete secrecy, even hiding its existence from his own family. It was originally published under a pen name in Hebrew in 1966 and now appears in English with an introduction by the author’s grandson.“When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of daily life in the town of Hadiach, Ukraine. The Nazis destroyed this small Jewish community, but Priegerzon interviewed some of the survivors. His tales depict devout women visiting the grave of Schneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe, who founded Chabad. They leave slips of paper with prayers and wishes, hoping for miracles... Readers interested in shtetl life and the history of Jews in Ukraine will find this book interesting.”
– Barbara Bibel, Congregation Netivot Shalom, AJL Reviews
“‘Who knows? Perhaps a heaven-sent miracle would take place. The Holy One Blessed Be He might turn things upside down, and Hitler could suffer defeat, and everything would go back to the way it had been before....’ The magical realism of Zvi Preigerzon’s novel, written in Hebrew in complete secrecy in post-Stalinist Moscow, awakes old stories about the Alter Rebbe, the founder of the Chabad movement R. Schneur Zalman Schneerson, and his special power to perform miracles. In a desperate attempt to cope with the unbearable cruelty of the Holocaust, the author traces the bitter fate of the small Jewish community of the Ukrainian town of Hadiach.”
—Ber Kotlerman, Professor of Yiddish Studies, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar Ilan University
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