This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no longer exists, yiddishland -- a huge area that stretched from Poland to the Ukraine, Belorussia, Romania, Bessarabia, Eastern Hungary and the Baltic States -- lives on through the telling imagery of the humble postcard. Gleaned from the millions preserved in attics, trunks ...
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This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no longer exists, yiddishland -- a huge area that stretched from Poland to the Ukraine, Belorussia, Romania, Bessarabia, Eastern Hungary and the Baltic States -- lives on through the telling imagery of the humble postcard. Gleaned from the millions preserved in attics, trunks and Jewish family archives all over the world, this remarkable collection brings to life the immutable rhythm of the shtetl. Poignant, touching, and alarming these fleeting moments, frozen in time, portray a civilization which might otherwise have been forgotten. They enable us to relive the past, incite us to remember and record for eternity the history and the legend that is yiddishland.
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G/G. 1584230185. 584 pages. Illustrated throughout with picture postcards, each with a caption. Includes a history of the people, the language and the geography. Clean;
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Softcover in DJ; 585pp; Minor scuffing & edgewear to DJ, clean, tight copy, VG/VG condition. Very large, high-quality and fascinating compilation of rare b/w photos of European Jews, their dwellings, neighborhoods, shtetls, synagogues, festivals, daily lives, schools and more, before and during the Holocaust. Text in French.
