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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939 Chava Rosenfarb Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler Library of American Fiction "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 Winner of the 1972 J. J. Segal Prize and the 1979 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. Chava Rosenfarb (1923–2011) was a Polish Holocaust survivor who published poetry, prose, and drama in both English and Yiddish. Her English titles include Bociany and Of Lodz and Love. From 1950 until her death she lived in Canada. The Tree of Life trilogy won the international Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature, the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation, and the Georges Bugnet Award for fiction from the Writers Guild of Alberta. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) The UW Press also publishes: The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940–1942 The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book Three: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942–1944

December 2004 LC: 2004053592 PJ 314 pp.    6 x 9    1 map Paper $21.95 t ISBN 978-0-299-20454-9 ADD TO CART   A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press Read these fantastic articles by Goldie Morgentaler about writing with her mother, Chava Rosenfarb: Love & Translation: Mother and Daughter Became Their Own Literary Enterprise and My Mother’s Life: How Chava Rosenfarb survived the Lodz ghetto to write a masterpiece about the experience.

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