Profiles Of A Lost World

Author : Hirsz Abramowicz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814327842

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Profiles of a Lost World by Hirsz Abramowicz Pdf

First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his writings provide an eyewitness account of Jewish life during the first half of the twentieth century. Abramowicz was a witness to war, revolution and major cultural transformations in the Jewish world. His essays, written and originally published in Yiddish between 1920 and 1955, document the local history of Lithuanian Jewry in rural and small-town settings, and in the city of Vilna-the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"-which was a major center of East European Jewish intellectual and cultural life. They shed light on the daily life of Jews and the flourishing of modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century and offer a personal perspective on the rise of Jewish radical politics. The collection incorporates local history of Lithuanian Jewry, shtetl folklore, observations on rural occupations, Jewish education, and life under German occupation during World War I. It also includes a series of profiles of leading social and intellectual Jewish personalities of the author's day, from traditional scholars to revolutionaries. Together the selections provide a blend of social and personal history and a window on a lost world.

Author : Gerald Lamprecht,Eleonore Lappin-Eppel,Ulrich Wyrwa
Publisher : Böhlau Wien
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783205208426

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Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe by Gerald Lamprecht,Eleonore Lappin-Eppel,Ulrich Wyrwa Pdf

World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.

Author : RILEY. BLACK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8854419214

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DINOSAURS by RILEY. BLACK Pdf

Author : Robert van Voren
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401200707

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Undigested Past by Robert van Voren Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Lithuanian Historical Background -- Origins of Anti-Semitism -- Jewish Life in Lithuania between World Wars -- The Holocaust in Lithuania -- Issues of Compliance and Collaboration -- The Human Dimension -- Why Did it Happen? -- From Black and White to Shades of Grey -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- About the Author.

Author : Aliza Cohen-Mushlin,Sergey Kravtsov,Vladimir Levin,Giedrė Mickūnaitė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : VDA leidykla
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Jewish architecture
ISBN : 9789955854609

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Synagogues in Lithuania A-M by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin,Sergey Kravtsov,Vladimir Levin,Giedrė Mickūnaitė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Pdf

Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1584651601

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Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia by ChaeRan Y. Freeze Pdf

A pathbreaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in 19th-century Russia.

Author : H. Stanley Loten
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781934536988

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Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal--Structures in and Around the Lost World Plaza by H. Stanley Loten Pdf

The Great Maya center of Tikal, in Guatemala, is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents descriptions of six structures that belong to the Tikal Project category "standing architecture," that is, though partially collapsed, some features of these buildings remain in place and accessible without excavation. These structures were surveyed with little or no excavation as part of the Tikal Project Standing Architecture Survey. This report is the primary record of these structures in Tikal's urban landscape, and it provides clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in the uses of Maya buildings. Universtiy Museum Monograph, 148

Author : Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847653451

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On The Eve by Bernard Wasserstein Pdf

This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two. In this revisionist account of modern European Jewry, Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack. Ranging from Vilna ('Jerusalem of Lithuania') to Salonica with its Judeo-Espaol-speaking stevedores and singers, and beyond, the book's focus is squarely on the Jews themselves rather than their persecutors. Wasserstein's aim is to 'breathe life into dry bones.' Based on vast research, written with compassion and empathy, and enlivened by dry wit, On the Eve paints a vivid and shocking picture of the European Jews in their final hour.

Author : Julija Sukys
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803240308

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Epistolophilia by Julija Sukys Pdf

The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau. Through Epistolophilia, Julija Šukys follows the letters and journals—the “life-writing”—of this woman, Ona Šimaitė (1894–1970). A treasurer of words, Šimaitė carefully collected, preserved, and archived the written record of her life, including thousands of letters, scores of diaries, articles, and press clippings. Journeying through these words, Šukys negotiates with the ghost of Šimaitė, beckoning back to life this quiet and worldly heroine—a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem’s honored “Righteous Among the Nations”) and yet so little known. The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and privately, and how their words attach them—and us—to life.

Author : Abraham Karpinowitz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815653523

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Vilna My Vilna by Abraham Karpinowitz Pdf

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes. This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs of Karpinowitz’s childhood growing up in his father’s Vilna Yiddish theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving the particular language of Vilna’s lower classes. In this graceful translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish, capturing Karpinowitz’s unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world for English-language readers.

Author : Glenn Dynner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199988518

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Yankel's Tavern by Glenn Dynner Pdf

In Yankel's Tavern, Glenn Dynner investigates the role of Jews in tavern-keeping in the Kingdom of Poland between 1815 and the uprising of 1863-4 and its aftermath.

Author : Omer Bartov,Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253006318

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Shatterzone of Empires by Omer Bartov,Eric D. Weitz Pdf

From the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically vast, multicultural region through a variety of methodological lenses, this volume offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.

Author : Theodore R. Weeks
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501758089

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Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 by Theodore R. Weeks Pdf

Author : Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053184

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A Pragmatic Alliance by Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas Pdf

Discusses the political cooperation between Jews and Lithuanians in the Tsarist Empire from the last decades of the 19th century until the early 1920s. These years saw the transformation of both Jewish and Lithuanian political life. Within the Jewish community, the previously dominant integrationists were now challenged both by those who believed that the Jews were not a religious but an ethnic or proto-nationalist group and those who believed that only with the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist state would Jewish integration be possible. Among the Lithuanians, the emergence of a modern national identity became increasingly prevalent.

Author : Carole Naggar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110706345

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David 'Chim' Seymour by Carole Naggar Pdf

"He used his camera like a doctor would use a stethoscope in order to diagnose the state of the heart. His own was vulnerable.", Cartier-Bresson wrote about David Seymour, who liked to be called Chim. Chim is best known as one of the cofounders of photojournalism’s famous cooperative Magnum Photos. Weaving Chim’s life and work, this book discovers this empathetic photographer who has been called "The First Human Rights Photographer". In 1947, Chim was one of the four cofounders of the Magnum Photos cooperative with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger. He also wrote Magnum’s 1955 bylaws, which are still in effect today. But he is the only one of those famous photographers who does not have a full biography to his name. This book examines his life and work from Poland to France to the Spanish Civil War, his work for British intelligence during World War II, his reportage on Europe’s children after the war, his reportages on Italian actors, illiteracy and religious festivals in Southern Italy, his coverage of Israel’s beginnings before his 1956 death during the Suez war. His complex itinerary is emblematic of the displacements and passages of the XXth century.