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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780503803321

Autore

Trunk Yeḥiel Yeshaia <1887-1961, >

Titolo

Poyln : my life within Jewish life in Poland, sketches and images / / Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk ; translated from the Yiddish by Anna Clarke ; edited by Piotr Wróbel and Robert M. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4875-1201-5

1-4426-8471-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

305.8924047

Soggetti

Jews - Poland - History

Jews - Poland - Social life and customs

Authors, Yiddish

Hasidim - Poland

History

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Poland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Map of Poland -- Family Tree -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-one -- Chapter Twenty-two -- Chapter Twenty-three.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first instalment of a multi-volume edition of Poyln, the first English translation to be published. Here begins a story of the beauty and pathos of the world of Polish Jewry, a world that was almost totally



destroyed by the Nazis.