Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat Dybbuk in the newly annexed territories

in the newly annexed territories

and immigrated to New York in 1912

Aleichem's ebullient nature and intellectual civility

Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language

Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesHonorable Mention

Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat Dybbuk in the newly annexed territoriesThe true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks