Theodore S. Hamerow

Remembering a Vanished World (eBook, PDF)

A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland

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Produktbeschreibung

Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which sought, during the half century before World War II, to create a secular Jewish culture, the vehicle of which would be the Yiddish language.

Combining the skills of an experienced historian with the talents of a natural writer, the author not only brings this exciting part of Jewish culture to life but also deals with ethnic relations and ethnic tensions in the region and addresses the broad political and cultural issues of a society on the verge of destruction. Thus a vivid image emerges that captures the feel and atmosphere of a world that has vanished forever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857458872
• Artikelnr.: 44908276

Autorenporträt

Theodore S. Hamerow (1920-2013) received his higher education at City College in New York, Columbia University, and Yale University. He retired in 1991 as G.P. Gooch Professor of History from the University of Wisconsin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Ancestral Faith and Modernist Rebellion
Chapter 1. The Patrimony of a Lithuanian Ghetto
Chapter 2. Those Patrician Rubinlichts of Gesia Street
Chapter 3. Migrations, Metamorphoses, Memories
Chapter 4. Living the High Life of Otwock
Chapter 5. On the Edge of the Volcano
Chapter 6. A Reunion at Arm's Length
Chapter 7. Leaving the Titanic
Index