The last generation of Jews in Poland /

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"The sense of a mighty, profound pulsation of national life still animated Polish Jews in the last two decades of their existence, 1919-1939-perhaps one of the most beautiful modes of Jewish life in the diaspora, with Ḥasidism as "Polish Jewry's gift to the Jewish people." To ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shmueli, Ephraim, 1908-1988 (Author)
Other Authors: Shmueli, Gila, 1946- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021.
Subjects:
Shmueli, Ephraim, > 1908-1988.
1900-1999
Jews > Poland > History > 20th century.
Jews > Identity.
Hasidim > Poland > Łódź > Biography.
Juifs > Pologne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Juifs > Identité.
Ethnic relations
Hasidim
Jews
Jews > Identity
Łódź (Poland) > History > 20th century.
Łódź (Poland) > Social life and custorms.
Łódź (Poland) > Ethnic relations.
Łódź (Poland) > Biography.
Poland
Poland > Łódź
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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