Occasionally an accident of research produces a book more engaging than the one the historian originally intended. While sifting through material for his Ph.D. dissertation, which dealt with an entirely different topic, Eisen came across a diary from the Vilna ghetto written by Zelig Kalmanovitch. His tone was sober, but not entirely so. The passage that caught Eisen's eye concerned a playground erected around 1942 and the author's inner conflict surrounded the coexistence of games and sports and mass murder in the ghetto.
- ISBN10 0870236210
- ISBN13 9780870236211
- Publish Date 1 October 1988
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 26 March 1993
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English