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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book I: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb
Translated from the Yiddish by the author
in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler

Library of World Fiction, Terrace Books

"A work that rises to the heights of the great creations of world literature and towers powerfully over the Jewish literature of the Holocaust."
—Jury decision for the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature

On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy The Tree of Life, describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II. The author, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, creates realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity.

  • Winner of the 1972 J. J. Segal Prize and the 1979 Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature

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Chava Rosenfarb is a Holocaust survivor who has published poetry, prose, and drama in both English and Yiddish. Her English titles include Bociany and Of Lodz and Love. She now resides in Alberta, Canada.

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The University of Wisconsin Press also publishes
The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto: Book Two and The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto: Book Three.

The Tree of Life, vol. 1 is illustrated with an old photo from the Lodz ghetto

December 2004
314 pp. 6 x 9 1 map
ISBN 0-299-20454-5 Paper $16.95 t



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