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Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland
By Emanuel Sherer (introduced by), Victor Gilinsky (foreword by), Marvin S. Zuckerman (trans) and Bernard Goldstein
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Purdue Univ Pr
Publication date March 15, 2016
Pages 424
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781557537492
ISBN-10 1557537496
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight 1.60 lbs.
Original list price $59.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a corrective view in the form of social history, one that commands attention and demands respect for the vitality and activism of the generation of Polish Jews so brutally annihilated by the barbarism of the Nazis.
In Warsaw, a city with over 300,000 Jews (one third of the population), Goldstein was the Jewish Labor Bund’s “enforcer,” organizer, and head of their militia―the one who carried out daily, on-the-street organization of unions; the fighting off of Communists, Polish anti-Semitic hooligans, and antagonistic police; marshaling and protecting demonstrations; and even settling family disputes, some of them arising from the new secular, socialist culture being fostered by the Bund.
Goldstein’s is a portrait of tough Jews willing to do battle―worldly, modern individuals dedicated to their folk culture and the survival of their people. It delivers an unparalleled street-level view of vibrant Jewish life in Poland between the wars: of Jewish masses entering modern life, of Jewish workers fighting for their rights, of optimism, of greater assertiveness and self-confidence, of armed combat, and even of scenes depicting the seamy, semi-criminal elements. It provides a representation of life in Poland before the great catastrophe of World War II, a life of flowering literary activity, secular political journalism, successful political struggle, immersion in modern politics, fights for worker rights and benefits, a strong social-democratic labor movement, creation of a secular school system in Yiddish, and a youth movement that later provided the heroic fighters for the courageous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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9781557537492 | details & prices | 424 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $59.95
About: Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed.

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