In search of Polin
Subtitle: chasing Jewish ghosts in today's Poland
By: Gary S. Schiff
Series: Washington college studies in religion, culture, and politics -- v. 2
Publisher: Peter lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433113864; 9781453902516
Subjects: Politics and government; Jews; Social conditions; Travel; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene: who were the Jews of modern Poland?; title: Refuge and opportunity: the rise of the Jewish community of Poland; title: Cracow and Lublin, Auschwitz and Majdanek: medieval heights and modern depths; title: From deluge to partition: the decline of Polish Jewry; title: The Jews in partitioned Poland's divergent development, 1795-World War I; title: Lodz: 19th century boom, 20th century bust; title: Hometown homecoming: from Ostroveh to Treblinka; title: Warsaw: capital catastrophe.