Letters from the Ghettos

Berakha Ḥabas

1943

To the Reader

The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as it is in blood and suffering, will fail to communicate the horror now being perpetrated against us.

These letters are not a receptacle of Jewish tears…

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Berakha Ḥabas

1900–1968

An editor, writer, and educator, Berakha Ḥabas was one of the first women journalists in Israel. Born in Alytus, Lithuania, to a wealthy, religious family, Ḥabas was the fourth child in a family of seven. In 1908, she emigrated with her family to Palestine, where she studied at the Lewinsky Teachers’ Seminary in Tel Aviv. Ḥabas served on the editorial board of the newspaper Davar from 1935 to 1953 and was also an editor at the Am Oved publishing house. During and immediately following World War II, she served as the editor in chief of Min Ha-moked, a library of original and translated works that chronicled the world crisis.

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