From that Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 - Softcover

Dawidowicz, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813543622 ISBN 13: 9780813543628

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2008

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Book by Dawidowicz Lucy

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"Lucy Dawidowicz's memoir comprises several books for the price of one: it portrays Jewish Vilna as the plucky American student encountered it in 1938, describes the fate of Jewish cultural treasures as she helped recover them after the War, and exposes the mind and spirit of an intrepid historian-in-the making. Sinkoff's introductory profile of the author is a bonus."-- (04/09/2008) "Lucy Dawidowicz was an historian of monumental importance, best known for her classic The War Against the Jews. But she was also a vital chronicler of the world of European Jewry before its destruction. Nancy Sinkoff performs a double service by reintroducing a new generation of readers to Dawidowicz's compelling memoir of Vilna on the brink of destruction and, with her superb introduction, rounding out a portrait of the historian as a young woman. By placing Dawidowicz's personal evolution in its historical and cultural context, Sinkoff has herself performed a grand act of historical reclamation."-- (05/08/2008)

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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. Dawidowicz's memoir not only describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, but also treats the ghostly post-war period, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813543622
• ISBN 13: 9780813543628
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
• Herausgeber: Sinkoff Nancy