From That Place and Time : A Memoir, 1938-1947
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0813543622
ISBN-13
9780813543628
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
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Rutgers University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 9th, 2008
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
567 grams
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23.50 x 15.60 x 2.80 cms
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MemoirsJewish studies
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From that Place and Time is the memoir of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. Escaping Poland only days before the Nazi onslaught, she worked in the New York YIVO during the war, and returned to Europe from 1946 to 1947 to aid Jewish displaced persons in Munich and Belsen with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Dawidowicz''s memoir not only describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, but also treats the ghostly post-war period, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna''s scorched Jewish archives and libraries.
From that Place and Time is the memoir of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. Escaping Poland only days before the Nazi onslaught, she worked in the New York YIVO during the war, and returned to Europe from 1946 to 1947 to aid Jewish displaced persons in Munich and Belsen with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Dawidowicz''s memoir not only describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, but also treats the ghostly post-war period, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna''s scorched Jewish archives and libraries.
Nancy Sinkoff''s new introduction explores the historical forces, particularly the dynamic world of secular Yiddish culture, which shaped Dawidowicz''s decision to journey to Poland and her reassessment of those forces in the last years of her life.
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