LEADER 03850nam 22004813 450 001 9910774890303321 005 20240402182527.0 010 $a1-80064-992-4 024 7 $a10.11647/OBP.0341 035 $a(CKB)5850000000320343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30406678 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30406678 035 $a(OCoLC)1372295823 035 $a(NjHacI)995850000000320343 035 $a(EXLCZ)995850000000320343 100 $a20230620d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Last Years of Polish Jewry $eVolume 1: at the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927-33 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCambridge, UK :$cOpen Book Publishers,$d2023. 210 4$d©2023. 215 $a1 online resource (180 pages) 311 $a1-80064-990-8 327 $aIntro -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Robert Brym -- About the translation and the translators -- Background -- 1. On the Sociology of Polish Jewry -- A. Introduction -- B. Population density and geographical segregation -- C. Socio-economic segregation -- D. Political segregation -- E. The influence of heritage -- F. The crisis -- 2. The birth pangs of the Jewish working class -- 3. The heritage of the Jewish factory owner -- Foreground -- 4. National Bolshevism -- 5. A flood of small promissory notes -- 6. Jews are collapsing in the streets from hunger -- 7. At night in the old market -- 8. Three-quarters of the Jewish population lack enough to live on -- 9. The destruction of Jewish economic life in Lodz -- 10. Fallen Jewish Vilna -- 11. The superfluous -- 12. Emigration tragedies -- Index. 330 $aUkrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as "the dean of Jewish sociologists" and "the father of Jewish demography," Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened interest in interwar Jewish communities in Poland in recent years, these essays (like most of Leshchinsky's works) have never been translated into English. The Last Years of Polish Jewry helps to rectify this situation by translating some of Leshchinsky's key essays. A thoughtful Introduction by Robert Brym provides the context of the author's life and work. The essays in this volume, based on years of research and first-hand observation, focus on the period 1927-33. The rise of militant Polish nationalism and the ensuing anti-Jewish boycotts and pogroms; the increasing exclusion of Jews from government employment and the universities; the destitution, hunger, suicide, and efforts to emigrate that characterized Jewish life; the psychological toll taken by mass uncertainty and hopelessness--all this falls within the author's ambit. There is no work in English that comes close to the range and depth of Leshchinsky's essays on the last years of the three million Polish Jews who were to perish at the hand of the Nazi regime. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Eastern European history and society, especially those with an interest in Eastern Europe's Jewish communities on the brink of the Holocaust. 517 $aLast Years of Polish Jewry 606 $aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions. 676 $a301.451924 700 $aLestschinsky$b Jacob$f1876-1966,$01732829 701 $aBrym$b Robert$0251139 701 $aJany$b Eli$01461429 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774890303321 996 $aThe Last Years of Polish Jewry$94147564 997 $aUNINA