{"product_id":"and-the-world-stood-silent","title":"And the World Stood Silent","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eOf the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust, at least 160,000 were Sephardim: descendants of Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. Although the horror of the camps was recorded by members of the Sephardic community, their suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world. With this collection, their long silence is broken.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the World Stood Silent \u003c\/i\u003egathers the Sephardim's French, Greek, Italian, and Judeo-Spanish poems, accompanied by English translations, about their long journey to the concentration and extermination camps. Isaac Jack Lévy also surveys the 2,000-year history of the Sephardim and discusses their poetry in relation to major religious, historical, and philosophical questions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Wrenchingly conveying the pathos and suffering of the Jewish community during World War II, \u003ci\u003eAnd the World Stood Silent\u003c\/i\u003e is invaluable as a historical account and as a documentary source.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Translated and with Commentaries by Isaac Jack Lévy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615358837116,"sku":"9780252068614","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_86f30d20-992c-42b5-891e-04a7a849f2ac.jpg?v=1746711417","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/and-the-world-stood-silent","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}