The life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust : a memoir / Ben-Zion Gold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gold, Ben-Zion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gold, Ben-Zion.

Jews--Poland--Radom (Radom)--Biography.

Jews.

Jews--Poland--Radom (Radom)--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Radom (Mazowieckie, Poland)--Biography.

Radom (Mazowieckie, Poland).

Poland--Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 152 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]

Summary:

Ben-Zion Gold' s memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed. With him we experience the life and institutions of the time: the " Heder" and hooky playing, his encounter with Hassidism, the courtship and marriage of his oldest sister, and the author' s own first inkling of love. And with him, we recapture the memories that made life worth living in the face of disaster, along with the experience of the human capacity for evil that tested and transformed his faith as it devastated his world. Finally, Gold tells of the fate of his family and of his own escape from that fate.

Contents:

Jewish Radom

Home and family

My father's marriage and business

My religious upbringing

Heder

My sisters' education

Yeshiva

Jews and Poles

Rayzel's engagement

Pinye's death

Finding a tutor

The Beit hamidrash and the Yeshiva

Encounters with Hasidism

Musarnikes

Bathya's engagement

Love's first glance

Escape to freedom

The encounter

After liberation.

ISBN:

9780803222229

080322222X

OCLC:

68693801

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