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A Spark of Freedom

Inherited Recitations of Trauma and Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Laine Halpern Zisman
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Abstract

“From the ovens we rise with our fists in the air. Now is the time.” My grandfather, Dovid Zisman, was a Yiddish playwright and poet, writing and performing while in the Łódz´ Ghetto and Buchenwald concentration camp. Poetry, song, and performance were his way to speak the unspeakable. A messy assemblage of theories, memoirs, verses, images, and recordings reveal what we can inherit through writing as resistance and through the creative mappings of space and time.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 8 - 23
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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