>Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol. 7
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Year:
2008
Catalog number :
45-978805
ISBN:
978-1-904113-80-5
Pages:
350
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Edition:
First
Weight:
510 gr.
Cover:
Paperback

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol. 7

Jewish Life in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw

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Synopsis

Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered in other articles include the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer, entitled 'From the Ghetto to Modern Culture'; Jan Czynski and the question of equal rights for all religious faiths; education of Jewish women in the nineteenth century; ritual slaughter as a political issue; and the Jewish press in Kraków in the inter-war years.