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The Jews in Poland and Russia: Volume III: 1914 to 2008

The Jews in Poland and Russia: Volume III: 1914 to 2008

Polonsky, Antony

Hardcover

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1904113486
ISBN13: 9781904113485
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Feb 9 2012
Pages: 1041
Weight: 3.65
Height: 2.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey of the history - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1750, when the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was the dominant political unit, to the present. Until the Second World War, this area was the heartland of the Jewish world: almost all the major movements which have characterized that world in recent times had their origins here, and it was home to the majority of the world's Jews. Nearly three and a half million lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United States, and most of the Jews of Israel, originated from these lands, the history of their Jewish communities is not well known. Rather, it is the subject of mythologizing and stereotypes that fail both to bring out the specific features of the Jewish civilization which emerged here and to illustrate what was lost in the passage across the Channel and the Atlantic. Jewish life in these parts, though often poor materially, was marked by a high degree of spiritual and ideological intensity and creativity.

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