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Awakening lives : autobiographies of Jewish youth in Poland before the Holocaust

2002
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A collection of autobiographies written by young Polish Jews in the 1930s. The candid writings not only reveal the personal struggles, ambitions and dreams of 15 young authors, they also reveal the nature of ordinary Jewish life in Poland in the years between the world wars.
Main title:
Awakening lives : autobiographies of Jewish youth in Poland before the Holocaust / edited by Jeffrey Shandler ; with an introduction by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Marcus Moseley, and Michael Stanislawski.
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]©2002
Collation:
li, 437 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Published in cooperation with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
ISBN:
9780300092776 (hbk)
Dewey class:
296.092243943.8
Language:
English
BRN:
2160198
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