The house at Ujazdowskie 16 : Jewish families in Warsaw after the Holocaust / Karen Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Karen, author.

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Biography.

Jews.

Jews--Homes and haunts.

History.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Poland--Warsaw.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Social conditions--21st century.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Social life and customs.

Jews--Homes and haunts--Poland--Warsaw--History.

Buildings--History--Poland--Warsaw.

Buildings.

Poland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

History brushed against us: the Adlers and the Bergmans

The families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue, 1900-1948

The entire nation builds its capital: Ujazdowskie Avenue and reconstructed Warsaw

Stamp of a generation: parents and children

Ostriches in the wilderness: children and parents

Finding the obliterated traces of the path: seeds of revival.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253009074

0253009073

9780253009159

0253009154

OCLC:

795177439