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dc.contributorBrym, Robert
dc.contributorJany, Eli
dc.contributor.authorLeshchinsky, Yankev
dc.contributor.editorBrym, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-10T04:01:55Z
dc.date.available2023-03-10T04:01:55Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023-03-09T10:41:49Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61670
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98236
dc.description.abstractUkrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened interest in interwar Jewish communities in Poland in recent years, these essays (like most of Leshchinsky’s works) have never been translated into English. The Last Years of Polish Jewry helps to rectify this situation by translating some of Leshchinsky’s key essays. A thoughtful Introduction by Robert Brym provides the context of the author’s life and work. The essays in this volume, based on years of research and first-hand observation, focus on the period 1927–33. The rise of militant Polish nationalism and the ensuing anti-Jewish boycotts and pogroms; the increasing exclusion of Jews from government employment and the universities; the destitution, hunger, suicide, and efforts to emigrate that characterized Jewish life; the psychological toll taken by mass uncertainty and hopelessness—all this falls within the author’s ambit. There is no work in English that comes close to the range and depth of Leshchinsky’s essays on the last years of the three million Polish Jews who were to perish at the hand of the Nazi regime. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Eastern European history and society, especially those with an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish communities on the brink of the Holocaust.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageYiddish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherYankev Leshchinsky;socioeconomics;politics;Jews;Eastern Europe;Ukraine;sociology;interwar period;Poland;nationalism;pogroms;history;Holocaust
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTZ Genocide and ethnic cleansing
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PG Relating to religious groups::5PGJ Relating to Jewish people and groups
dc.titleThe Last Years of Polish Jewry
dc.title.alternativeVolume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0341
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649903
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649910
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649934
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649941
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649958
oapen.relation.isbn9781800649965
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages178
oapen.place.publicationCambridge


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