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Twenty years with the Jewish Labor Bund
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ISBN: 1612494471 1612494463 9781612494463 9781557537492 1557537496 9781612494470 Year: 2016 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana

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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), Bernstein 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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Five years in the Warsaw ghetto
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Year: 1961 Publisher: Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday,

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Die Sterne sind Zeugen: der Untergang der polnischen Juden
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Year: 1965 Publisher: München Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

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Die Sterne sind Zeugen : der bewaffnete Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto : Bericht eines der Anführer
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ISBN: 3922774695 Year: 1992 Volume: 3 Publisher: Freiburg : Ahriman-Verlag,

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Die Sterne sind Zeugen : der Untergang der polnischen Juden
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Year: 1965 Volume: 262 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag,

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Cinq années dans le ghetto de Varsovie
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Year: 1962 Publisher: Bruxelles : La Renaissance du livre,

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Cinq années dans le ghetto de Varsovie
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Year: 1962 Publisher: Bruxelles La Renaissance du livre

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Theory and observation in ancient and medieval astronomy
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ISBN: 0860781631 9780860781639 Year: 1985 Volume: 215 Publisher: Aldershot (Hants): Variorum,


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The astronomical tables of Levi ben Gerson
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ISBN: 020801425X 9780208014252 Year: 1974 Volume: 45 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Connecticut academy of arts and sciences,

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Cinq années dans le ghetto de Varsovie
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Year: 1962 Publisher: Bruxelles Renaissance du livre

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