In search of Polin chasing Jewish ghosts in today's Poland /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiff, Gary S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter lang, 2012.
Series:Washington college studies in religion, culture, and politics ; v. 2
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.