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Theodore Hamerow was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were thus part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which sought, during the half century before World War II, to create a secular Jewish culture, the vehicle of which would be the Yiddish language. Combining the skills of an experienced historian with the talents of a natural writer, the author not only brings this exciting part of Jewish culture to life but also deals with ethnic relations and ethnic tensions in the region and addresses the broad political and cultural issues of a society on the verge of destruction.
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• Contents: Totalitarianism - Polish-Jewish relations during the war- Collaboration- Crisis of communism - Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration - Polish-Jewish relations during the war - Jewish Community in the Soviet Annexed Territories on the Eve of the Holocaust - Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors: a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe? - Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation.
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The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach in Holocaust research in Poland in which he has taken it from out of its intellectual ghetto as a strictly Jewish subject and repositioned it at the center of Poland's wartime history. Among other topics, the collection of essays deals with Jewish community in the Soviet annexed territories on the eve of the Holocaust, opportunistic killings and plunder of Jews by their neighbors and Poland's development from a civil society to a political nation.
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• The youth Bund Tsukunft
• SKIF : the Bundist children's movement
• Morgnshtern : a Bundist movement for physical education
• The Medem sanatorium
• The Bundist women's organization.

In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland - the largest in Europe - was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers' Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland on the eve of the Second World War and became a major political party. While many earlier works on the politics of Polish Jewry have suggested that Bundist victories were not of lasting significance or attributable to outside forces, Jack Jacobs argues convincingly that the electoral success of the Bund was linked to the work of the constellation of cultural and other organizations revolving around the party. The Bund offered its constituents innovative, highly attractive, programs and a more enlightened perspective: from new sexual mores to sporting organizations and educational institutions. Drawing on meticulously researched archival materials, Jacobs shows how the growth of these successful programs translated into a stronger, more robust party. At the same time, he suggests the Bund's limitations, highlighting its failed women's movement. Jacobs provides a fascinating account of this countercultural movement and a thoughtful revision to the accepted view.
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The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. As modern ideologies of democratic, homogeneous national societies came to life, this separateness became a problem. Focusing on several long-term factors and one major event - the Revolution of 1905 - Weeks traces Poland's failed attempts to integrate its Jewish communities into the country's social fabric. While Jews became politically engaged during the Industrial Revolution, social integration remained elusive.
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• Vorwort / Ralph Deja und Juliane Beate Sagebiel
• Blicke auf den Widerstand : eine Einleitung / Juliane Beate Sagebiel
• Stiller Widerstand im Nationalsozialismus / Christine Rädlinger
• Wege in die Emigration : Dr. Otto von Habsburg
• Die Hilfen im Verborgenen : Familie Hipp
• Die Kunst des Überlebens : Richard Marx
• Formen des politischen Widerstandes
• Schutzmassnahmen in der Kleinstadt : Frau N.
• "Life in a jar" : Irena Sendler und ihr Rettungswiderstand / Juliane Beate Sagebiel
• Das Leben als "Eiertanz" : Stiller Widerstand in der DDR zwischen Anpassung und Opposition / Dörte Esselborn
• Widerstehen : rückzug oder befreiung / Klaus Weber
• Danksagung
• Zu den Autor_innen.

This book presents the writings of Hugh S. Gibson, who served from 1919 to 1924 as the first US Minister to the new Second Polish Republic. Crucially involved with world-shaping events, Gibson faithfully recorded his eyewitness impressions and interactions with the nascent Polish state, bickering Allies, and increasingly isolationist Americans. The selected material draws from both State Department dispatches and personal letters, most of it appearing in print for the first time. Editor Vivian Hux Reed, working with experts M. B. B. Biskupski, Jochen Boehler, and Jan-Roman Potocki, provides historical context through a comprehensive introduction and series of annotations. Reminiscences by Gibson's late son Michael Francis Gibson provide personal context. With a flair for pertinent analysis, Gibson records the rocky first years of Polish statehood. He advocated for American support of the young democracy and emphasized to both Polish and US government officials the need for a strong state to protect the rights of all Polish citizens. His words are prophetic, accurately assessing the need for strong state structures to protect all citizens and predicting the danger posed especially to minority groups should such structures fail. VIVIAN HUX REED has an MA in history from Western Oregon University. M. B. B. BISKUPSKI is professor of history, Central Connectictut State University. JOCHEN BOEHLER is a research associate, Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena at Friedrich Schiller University. JAN-ROMAN POTOCKI has an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University.
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• The youth Bund Tsukunft
• SKIF : the Bundist children's movement
• Morgnshtern : a Bundist movement for physical education
• The Medem sanatorium
• The Bundist women's organization.

• Glossary of names Introduction
• 1 "History Brushed Against Us": The Adlers and the Bergmans
• 2 The Jewish Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue, 1900-1948
• 3 "The Entire Nation Builds Its Capital": Ujazdowskie Avenue and Reconstructed Warsaw
• 4 "Stamp of a Generation": Parents and Children
• 5 "Ostriches in the Wilderness": Children and Parents
• 6 "Finding the Eradicated Traces of the Path": Seeds of Revival Epilogue: Present and Past Notes Bibliography and works cited.
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In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past. Based on interviews with family members, intensive research in archives, and the families' personal papers and correspondence, Karen Auerbach presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness.
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Without question, the establishment and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience. Remarkably, a full history of the Ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts and primary documents. "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City" is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English.The authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, the actual daily experience of its thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation following the uprising of 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the Judenrat's administration. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka and the famous uprising. A series of original maps, along with biographies, a glossary, and a bibliography, completes this masterful work.
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