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From that place and time : a memoir, 1938-1947 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.
Van Pelt Library DS135.R93 V523 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dawidowicz, Lucy S--Travel--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jews.
- Yiddish language.
- Travel.
- Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Yiddish language--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)--Ethnic relations.
- Vilnius (Lithuania).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Lithuania.
- Holocaust survivors--Germany (West).
- Holocaust survivors.
- Germany (West).
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Jewish.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Autobiographie 1938-1947.
- Erlebnisbericht.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 333 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1989]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- I. From New York to Vilna
- Vilna: A City of the Past
- Living from Day to Day
- The YIVO: The Ministry of Yiddish
- In the Realm of Yiddish: On the Periphery
- In the Realm of Yiddish: At the Center
- Rich and Poor, Right and Left
- Them and Us
- Flight
- II. New York 1939-1942: War Watch
- New York 1942-1943: Death Watch
- New York 1944-1945: The Reckoning
- III. In the Land of Amalek
- Saving Remnants.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Autobiography and Memoir, Winner, 1990
- ISBN:
- 0393026744
- 9780393026740
- OCLC:
- 18497688
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