From that place and time
| Titel: | From that place and time : a memoir 1938 - 1947 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Norton, 1989 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 333 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0393026744 |
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | 38 8 W 180 ; 38 4 C ; 26 15 L |
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On August 10, 1938, Lucy S. Dawidowicz set sail from New York to Vilna, Poland, to study at the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO). For a year, while she studied the Jewish past, she immersed herself in Vilna's present, getting to know the Jewish rich and poor, witnessing Poland's brutal anti-Semitism. Then she was forced to flee Vilna, just a week before German tanks and troops rumbled into Poland and eventually destroyed this citadel of East European Jewish culture forever. After the war Lucy Dawidowicz again sailed to Europe -- this time to work with Jewish survivors and to identify the remnants of the precious YIVO library of Vilna.
