ISBN:
9781433113864
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 286 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
230 mm x 160 mm
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Washington College studies in religion, politics, and culture 2
Series Statement:
Washington College studies in religion, politics, and culture
DDC:
305.892/40438
Keywords:
Schiff, Gary S Travel
;
Jews Social conditions
;
Jews Politics and government
;
Jews History
;
Poland Ethnic relations
;
Polen
;
Juden
;
Geschichte
;
Polen
;
Juden
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Setting the scene: who were the Jews of modern Poland? -- Refuge and opportunity: the rise of the Jewish community of Poland -- Cracow and Lublin, Auschwitz and Majdanek: medieval heights and modern depths -- From deluge to partition: the decline of Polish Jewry -- The Jews in partitioned Poland's divergent development, 1795-World War I -- Lodz: 19th century boom, 20th century bust -- Hometown homecoming: from Ostroveh to Treblinka -- Warsaw: capital catastrophe.
URL:
http://www.herder-institut.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/rezensionen/2013_62_708_709.pdf
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