In Kindling Flame (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Mae Atkinson
- First Published: 1985
- Time of Work: 1921–1944
- Setting: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Palestine, and Cairo
- Principal Characters: Hannah Senesh, Catherine Senesh, George Senesh, Reuven Dafne, Yoel Palgi, Miryam, Margit Dayka, Captain Simon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Freedom, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Martyrs or martyrdom, Holocaust, Jewish, Biography, Zionism, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Palestine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Cairo, Egypt
Form and Content
Linda Mae Atkinson’s In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921–1944 recounts the cycle of a young Hungarian Jewish woman’s life against the backdrop of the events of the mid-1930’s through the end of World War II known as the Holocaust. Senesh is an insightful, talented, yet unsure young woman whose desire to become a writer is altered by the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the resurgence of anti-Semitism in her native Hungary and throughout Europe. The account documents her decision to embrace Zionism and to emigrate to...
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