Books like The subtenant ; To outwit God by Hanna Krall


This volume presents two works by acclaimed Polish journalist Hanna Krall: The Subtenant, a semi-autobiographical novel, and To Outwit God, a remarkable interview with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Subtenant explores the troubled and ever-shifting relationships between Poles and Jews, beginning with the author's concealment as a child during the Nazi years and ending in 1981 when martial law was declared in Poland. In To Outwit God, Edelman's words assault conventional assumptions about heroes and heroism, taking in his time not only in the Warsaw Ghetto but his careers as a physician and a Solidarity activist. Taken together, the two works form a powerful memoir of Jewish survival, a meditation on Polish-Jewish relations, and a commentary on the forces that have produced modern Polish opposition movements.
First publish date: 1992
Authors: Hanna Krall
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 0.0 (0 community ratings)

The subtenant ; To outwit God by Hanna Krall

How are these books recommended?

The books recommended for The subtenant ; To outwit God by Hanna Krall are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.


Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.

Books similar to The subtenant ; To outwit God (14 similar books)

The Book Thief by 4615885|Markus Zusak book cover

📘 The Book Thief

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (121 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Milk and Honey by 11733593|Rupi Kaur book cover

📘 Milk and Honey
 by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey is a lyrical poetry collection by Rupi Kaur that explores healing, resilience, and the bittersweet moments of life through four thematic sections.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (114 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
The diary of a young girl by 8796374|Cherry Gilchrist book cover

📘 The diary of a young girl


★★★★★★★★★★ 2.4 (5 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Man's search for meaning by 10537135|Viktor E. Frankl book cover

📘 Man's search for meaning


★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (3 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Schindler's ark by 8719272|Thomas Keneally book cover

📘 Schindler's ark

"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began."

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Shielding the flame by 13557493|Hanna Krall book cover

📘 Shielding the flame


★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Ghettostadt by 13230915|Gordon J. Horwitz book cover

📘 Ghettostadt

klikněte stažení 🎬|✮☛ https://go-movies.xyz/cs/movie/828094 Sledujte HD 🎬|✮☛ https://go-movies.xyz/cs/movie/828094

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Nadzieja umiera ostatnia by 13020923|Halina Birenbaum book cover

📘 Nadzieja umiera ostatnia

Memoirs of the author's experiences during the Holocaust. Born in Warsaw, she was ten years old at the time of the German occupation. Relates her internment in the Warsaw ghetto, and in the camps Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe, until the liberation.

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
The chronicle of the Łódź ghetto, 1941-1944 by 10128026|Lucjan Dobroszycki book cover

📘 The chronicle of the Łódź ghetto, 1941-1944

A firsthand account of daily life, struggle, and persecution within the Łódź ghetto from 1941 until its liquidation in 1944, offering insight into the Jewish community during the Holocaust.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Night by 6414067|Elie Wiesel book cover

📘 Night

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Pamiętnik Rutki Laskier by 9979559|Rutka Laskier book cover

📘 Pamiętnik Rutki Laskier


★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Courage under siege by 6211239|Charles G. Roland book cover

📘 Courage under siege

In the cramped Warsaw Ghetto, the Jewish community faced a devastating medical catastrophe as epidemics spread unchecked, revealing the harsh realities of persecution and health neglect during the Holocaust.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Resistance by 9017283|Israel Gutman book cover

📘 Resistance

On April 19, 1943, thousands of Nazi troops were given the order to remove all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a few square blocks sheltering the remnants of the half million or more Jewish citizens of Poland's capital, to the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. They were to kill those who resisted. A few hundred of the trapped Jews, mostly teenagers, armed only with pistols, Molotov cocktails, and a few light machine guns, vowed to fight back. Resistance is the full story of the uprising and the events leading to it, told by a survivor of the battle who is now a world-renowned Israeli scholar of the Holocaust. Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s was the home of Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish community. It included the rich, the poor, and the middle class; casual assimilationists and ardent Zionists; representatives of the full spectrum of political and religious factions. Then came the German onslaught of ruthless violence against the Jews - isolation and starvation amid desperation and disease - then deportations. As the ghetto walls rose, hundreds of thousands were rounded up and sent to Treblinka. But resistance began to take shape, and when the final attack order came, the ghetto fighters stood ready. Supported by moving and dramatic excerpts from diaries, letters, and other documents of the period, Resistance is destined to take its place as the classic account of a most important turning point in Jewish and world history.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Rywka's diary by 11951068|Rywka Lipszyc book cover

📘 Rywka's diary


★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Some Other Similar Books

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Wladyslaw Kopaliński
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City by Yehuda B. Gutman
Hiding in the Light by Geraldine Brooks

Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!

Please login to submit books!