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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):
- Jews--Poland--Radom (Mazowieckie)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Poland--Radom (Mazowieckie)--Biography.
- Radom (Mazowieckie, Poland)--Biography.
- Radom (Mazowieckie, Poland).
- Gold, Ben-Zion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-73514-7
- 9786610735143
- 0-8032-0564-3
- OCLC:
- 476036123
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