Jews in Poland and Russia: 1914-2008 v. 3 (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
By Antony Polonsky.
Description
Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey of the history - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1750, when the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was the dominant political unit, to the present. Until the Second World War, this area was the heartland of the Jewish world: almost all the major movements which have characterized that world in recent times had their origins here, and it was home to the majority of the world's Jews. Nearly three and a half million lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the S...
ISBN(s)
1904113486, 9781904113485
