Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 182 pages)
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8 illustrations
ISBN:
9781800649996
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9781805110002
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9781805110033
Inhalt:
"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," 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."--Publisher's website
Anmerkung:
Available through Open Book Publishers
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This book is part of a 2-volume set. The other volume in the set is: The last years of Polish Jewry. Volume 1. At the edge of the abyss : essays, 1927-33
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Includes bibliography (pages 173-174) and index
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Introduction / Robert Brym -- 1. The pogroms in Poland, 1935-37 / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 2. Pogrom gunpowder / Yankev Leshchinsky, Eli Jany, Robert Brym -- 3. The Minsk-Mazovyetsk pogrom / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 4. The Pshitik pogrom / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 5. Government antisemitism / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 6. The first ghetto bench in the universities / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 7. Ghetto benches / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 8. Jewish self-defence / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 9. Protests against pogroms / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 10. Old-fashioned methods in new times / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 11. Suicides / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 12. Is emigration a solution? / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany -- 13. Jews flee Poland / Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany.
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Essays translated from the Yiddish ; translations and other editorial matter in English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781800649972
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781800649989
Sprache:
Englisch
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