The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37

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dc.contributorJany, Eli
dc.contributorBrym, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLeshchinsky, Yankev
dc.contributor.editorBrym, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-07T04:45:58Z
dc.date.available2024-10-07T04:45:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-16
dc.date.updated2024-10-07T04:45:56Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
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 1935-37. 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. Few works in English have 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.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0342
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649972
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649989
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649996
dc.identifier.isbn9781805110033
dc.identifier.isbn9781805110002
dc.identifier.other7b30b0e1-2e8c-459a-9412-d7e360623f74
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/809
dc.languageENG
dc.languageYID
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rightsEmbargo: none
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectHBLW
dc.subjectHBTZ
dc.subjectJFSR1
dc.subjectHIS010010
dc.subjectHIS022000
dc.subjectHIS037070
dc.subjectSOC007000
dc.subjectJBFH
dc.subjectNHB
dc.subjectNHD
dc.subjectNHTB
dc.subjectEuropean Studies
dc.subjectPolitics and Sociology
dc.subjectEastern Europe
dc.subjecthistory
dc.subjectHolocaust
dc.subjectinterwar period
dc.subjectJews
dc.subjectnationalism
dc.subjectpogroms
dc.subjectPoland
dc.subjectpolitics
dc.subjectsocioeconomics
dc.subjectsociology
dc.subjectUkraine
dc.subjectYankev Leshchinsky
dc.titleThe Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
organization.legalNameUniversity of Toronto
organization.legalNameUniversity of Toronto
organization.legalNameUniversity of Toronto

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