Between Two Streams
Essential to a better understanding of Herzberg’s essays are his diary entries from Bergen-Belsen, first published in 1950 and later in English as 'Between Two Streams'.
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Original title
Tweestromenland
Author
Abel J. Herzberg
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An unusually probing, sensitive, and eloquent diary of incarceration at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. […] Harsh and gentle, intimate and public, these sparkling observations of human nature and values resonate with that spirit which cannot be beaten or starved out of us.
Kirkus Reviews
Abel J. Herzberg
Abel J. Herzberg was born in Amsterdam in 1893, the son of Russian emigrants. He worked as a lawyer until his death in 1989. He wrote plays and novels, many about Biblical characters (Saul, Herod, Jacob and Joseph), but is best known for his highly personal essays and memoirs 'Amor fati' (1946) and 'Between Two Streams' (1950).