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Shmueli Ephraim <1908-1988, > |
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Titolo |
The last generation of Jews in Poland / / Efraim Shmueli ; edited and translated from the Hebrew by Gila Shmueli |
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Brookline, Massachusetts : , : Cherry Orchard Books, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-64469-600-2 |
1-64469-599-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Poland - History - 20th century |
Jews - Identity |
Łódź (Poland) History 20th century |
Łódź (Poland) Social life and custorms |
Łódź (Poland) Ethnic relations |
Łódź (Poland) Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Introduction -- Chapter 1. The World of Polish Jews -- Chapter 2. Pilgrimage to the Rebbe -- Chapter 3. Holiness and its Heirs -- Chapter 4. Inside Lodz -- Chapter 5. Lodz Economy and Politics -- Chapter 6. Sanctity and Sin -- Chapter 7. A Town and its Ẓaddik -- Chapter 8. Portrait of a Ḥasidic Rebbe (Admor) -- Chapter 9. Farewell to Aleksander -- Chapter 10. A Hebrew High School in its Heyday -- Chapter 11. My Teachers -- Chapter 12. With the Poet Yiẓḥak Katzenelson -- Chapter 13. The Holocaust Poet -- Chapter 14. A Small Town in Poland -- Chapter 15. Return to Poland -- Chapter 16. Poland’s Five Great Changes—and One Fixation -- Notes -- Glossary -- About the Author— Efraim Shmueli (1908–1988) -- List of Photographs -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An amalgam of personal reminiscences of a bright young man with later observations of a mature scholar bring to life the mighty pulsation of Jewish life in Poland in its last two decades of existence, 1919-1939--an extraordinary, perhaps unique, mode of Jewish life in the |
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