Last Years of Polish Jewry. / Volume 1, : At the edge of the abyss: essays, 1927-33 / / Yankev Leshchinksy.

"Ukrainian-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," Leshch...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : Open Book Publishers,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (178 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • On the Sociology of Polish Jewry
  • The birth pangs of the Jewish working class
  • The heritage of the Jewish factory owner
  • National Bolshevism
  • A flood of small promissory notes
  • Jews are collapsing in the streets from hunger
  • At night in the old market
  • Three-quarters of the Jewish population lack enough to live on
  • The destruction of Jewish economic life in Lodz
  • Fallen Jewish Vilna
  • The superfluous
  • Emigration tragedies.