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1 online resource |
| 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 |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
European history |
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Holocaust |
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Jews |
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Poles |
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WWI |
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WWII |
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cultural |
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social |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Hebrew as Bador ha-yehudi ha-aḥaron be-Polin by Aleph Publishers Ltd., Tel Aviv, 1986." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2022) |
| Subject |
Shmueli, Ephraim, 1908-1988.
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Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
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Jews -- Identity.
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Hasidim -- Poland -- Łódź -- Biography
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Ethnic relations
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Hasidim
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Jews
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Jews -- Identity
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Łódź (Poland) -- History -- 20th century
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Łódź (Poland) -- Social life and custorms
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Łódź (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
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Łódź (Poland) -- Biography
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Poland
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Poland -- Łódź
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shmueli, Gila, 1946- translator.
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| LC no. |
2021033456 |
| ISBN |
9781644696002 |
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1644696002 |
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9781644695999 |
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1644695995 |
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