Product Description: By the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to the second largest Jewish population in the world. By war's end, its Jews had been decimated and their culture all but destroyed. The authors of this work revisit their roots to research a rumour that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern Poland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contains a reproduction of photographs taken by Alter Kacyzne portraying pre-World War II Polish Jewish communities (view table of contents)

Photos depict the lives of Polish Jews on the eve of the Holocaust, and are accompanied by a discussion of the aspects of Jewish life that gave it its special qualities

Photographs every aspect of Jewish life in homes, schools, synagoges, and in city and village streets, and chronicles important events in Polish Jewish history

Reports on the living conditions of the few remaining Polish Jews and describes the remnants of the once-thriving Jewish culture

Photographs every aspect of Jewish life in homes, schools, synagoges, and in city and village streets, and chronicles important events in Polish Jewish history