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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795880403321

Autore

Shmueli Ephraim <1908-1988, >

Titolo

The last generation of Jews in Poland / / Efraim Shmueli ; edited and translated from the Hebrew by Gila Shmueli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, Massachusetts : , : Cherry Orchard Books, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-600-2

1-64469-599-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Disciplina

943.847

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



diaspora.