The house at Ujazdowskie 16 : Jewish families in Warsaw after the Holocaust /
In a turn-of-the-century, once-elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish cap...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | In a turn-of-the-century, once-elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past. Based on interviews with family members, intensive research in archives, and the families' personal papers and correspondence, the author presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253009154 9780253009159 1299620132 9781299620131 |