The newly dicovered complete corpus of the Jewish poll-tax lists provides a totally new outlook on Jewish autonomy in eighteenth century Poland from which a full reconstruction of the Jewish settlement can be drawn. The book includes series of tables and maps.
"Yehuda Nir was nine years old when he witnessed his father rounded up by the Nazis, never to be seen again - the first of countless relatives, friends and neighbors murdered during the Holocaust. Forced to flee to Warsaw and live in disguise as Catholics for the next five years…
The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.
Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.
Taking a unique, multi-faceted approach to the 1,000 years of Polish Jewish history in this volume, Gary S. Schiff combines academic scholarship with his own family's long history and his insightful travel experiences and candid observations. From its earliest medieval days, to …
