The Last Generation of Jews in Poland by Efraim Shmueli (English) Hardcover Book

by Efraim Shmueli

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The Nile on eBay The Last Generation of Jews in Poland by Efraim Shmueli, Gila Shmueli 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversations, personal observations and an acute observer's reflections, focused on the fabric of life in the city of Lodz and its vicinity. The author describes the "court" of the Hasidic Rabbis of Aleksander, with which his family was affiliated, the rival camps of Hasidim and Zionists, industrialists and laborers, struggles with the Polish authorities, and more. Detailed chapters are dedicated to a description of studies at a modern Jewish-Zionist high school (Gymnasium) its exhilarating goals, directors and teachers, to the Lodz poet Yitzhak Katzenelson before and during the Holocaust, and to life in a small Polish shtetl. The concluding chapter "Return to Poland" examines the cities and towns described earlier in the book, as well as Breslau-Wroclaw, where the author had completed his rabbinic and university studies in 1933, as they appeared to him during his visit in 1982, nearly fifty years after h

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781644695975
• Condition: Fine

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