The last generation of Jews in Poland /

The last generation of Jews in Poland /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shmueli, Ephraim, 1908-1988, author.
Uniform title:	Ba-dor ha-Yehudi ha-aḥaron be-Polin. English
Imprint:	Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Shmueli, Ephraim, -- 1908-1988. Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Identity. Hasidim -- Poland -- Łódź -- Biography. 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.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13563918
Related Items:	Translation of: Ba-dor ha-Yehudi ha-aḥaron be-Polin.

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Other authors / contributors:	Shmueli, Gila, 1946- translator.
ISBN:	9781644696002 1644696002 9781644695999 1644695995 9781644695975 9781644695982
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).
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Shmueli, Ephraim, 1908-1988. With the last generation of Jews in Poland Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021 9781644695975

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