It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi''s Witness of the Shoah and Survival

About Leon Thorne

About the Author Rabbi Leon Thorne was born in Schodnica near Drohobycz the area of Eastern Galicia he describes vividly in It Will Yet Be Heard. He was ordained a rabbi at the age of 19 continued his religious studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and earned a Ph.D. at Wuerzburg in philosophy and history. He survived the Holocaust and became a chaplain in the Polish army upon liberation in 1944. Rabbi Thorne emigrated to the United States in 1948 and in 1961 published the first part of his memoir as Out of the Ashes. Now newly introduced expanded and with a previously unpublished second half It Will Yet Be Heard offers rare insight into the Holocaust and its aftermath in Poland. About Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. His review of Out of the Ashes appeared in 1961 and appears here in English for the first time. About the Editor Daniel H. Magilow is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He has published four books including In Her Fathers Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust also published by Rutgers. In 2005-2006 he was the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. About the Translator Marc Caplan is a scholar of Yiddish literature and the author of How Strange the Change: Language Temporality and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms a comparison of Yiddish literature with the African novel in English and French. He has also completed a forthcoming book on Yiddish literature and German-Jewish culture in Weimar-era Berlin. About the Editor Emanuel Thorne son of the author Leon Thorne teaches economics at Brooklyn College. He has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown Universitys Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. His articles have appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.