The Last Generation of Jews in Poland / / Efraim Shmueli; ed. by Gila Shmueli.
he 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 th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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