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| Other authors / contributors: | Shmueli, Gila, 1946- translator.
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| ISBN: | 9781644696002
1644696002
9781644695999
1644695995
9781644695975
9781644695982
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| Notes: | "Originally published in Hebrew as Bador ha-yehudi ha-aḥaron be-Polin by Aleph Publishers Ltd., Tel Aviv, 1986."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2022).
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| Summary: | "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 capture the spiritual and intellectual ferment that animated Polish Jewry in those interbellum years, the author weaves memories of his youth into the story of the Jewish world he knew in his native Lodz. From his roots in the pietistic world of Ḥasidism and his later immersion in a secular Zionist high school, he invokes programs of "salvation" that shift from passive submission to God's will to political, social and national activism"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Shmueli, Ephraim, 1908-1988. With the last generation of Jews in Poland Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021 9781644695975
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