Image Before My Eyes

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ISBN 0-aaSS-3tD7-M »3S.D0
Image Before My Eyes
A Photographic History ofJewish Ufe in Poland. 1864-1939
Lucjan Dobroszycki Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimbiett
With Over 300 Illustrations
It is the remarlable achievement of this lavish bool< that its text, maps, and hundreds of pictures seem to resurrect a society, culture, and civilization now completely vanished. Drawing on the largest collection of photographs of Polish Jewry in the world, that of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the authors document every facet of the society of Polish Jews, which was the source of much that is important in contemporary Jewish life. Here is fresh, eyewitness testimony that will stand in stark contrast to the romanticized, nostalgic views often held in popular Jewish culture today.
in a millennium of history, Poland became the place of the greatest Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe, and the center, in modern times, of an unparalleled Jewish diversity. Following an introductory section... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ISBN 0-aaSS-3tD7-M »3S.D0
Image Before My Eyes
A Photographic History ofJewish Ufe in Poland. 1864-1939
Lucjan Dobroszycki Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimbiett
With Over 300 Illustrations
It is the remarlable achievement of this lavish bool< that its text, maps, and hundreds of pictures seem to resurrect a society, culture, and civilization now completely vanished. Drawing on the largest collection of photographs of Polish Jewry in the world, that of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the authors document every facet of the society of Polish Jews, which was the source of much that is important in contemporary Jewish life. Here is fresh, eyewitness testimony that will stand in stark contrast to the romanticized, nostalgic views often held in popular Jewish culture today.
in a millennium of history, Poland became the place of the greatest Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe, and the center, in modern times, of an unparalleled Jewish diversity. Following an introductory section on the history of Jewish photography in Poland, the next part of this work shows the historical places and monuments of a long history. Scores of photographs and detailed captions picture the synagogues inside and out, the artifacts, the cemeteries and tombstones, the houses and buildings from various periods in many styles that mark the course of Jewish history in Poland.
The third part of the volume outlines the historical events that have made up Polish-Jewish history since the advent of photography. It is a chronological record of political occasions, migrations, pogroms, wars, and historical personalities. The final section treats this same period but from the perspective of society, people, and culture: the daily life of men and women in poor Jewish towns, the life of the workingman in the city, the businessman in Warsaw, the university student in Cracow, the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the religious and the radically anti-religious, their ceremonies, rallies, theaters, schools, homes.
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