03059nam 2200649 450 991081507670332120230119025103.01-64469-600-21-64469-599-510.1515/9781644695999(CKB)5700000000003503(MiAaPQ)EBC6825364(Au-PeEL)EBL6825364(OCoLC)1291507857(DE-B1597)577354(DE-B1597)9781644695999(EXLCZ)99570000000000350320230119d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe last generation of Jews in Poland /Efraim Shmueli ; edited and translated from the Hebrew by Gila ShmueliBrookline, Massachusetts :Cherry Orchard Books,[2021]©20211 online resource (336 pages)1-64469-597-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexAn 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.JewsPolandHistory20th centuryJewsIdentityŁódź (Poland)History20th centuryŁódź (Poland)Social life and custormsŁódź (Poland)Ethnic relationsŁódź (Poland)BiographyEuropean history.Holocaust.Jews.Poles.WWI.WWII.cultural.social.JewsHistoryJewsIdentity.943.847Shmueli Ephraim1908-1988,772888Shmueli Gila1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815076703321The last generation of Jews in Poland3925048UNINA