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Synopsis
Mark Verstandig's compelling epic spans pre-Holocaust Jewish culture in Eastern Europe and its post-war reformation in Australia. His account of the displaced persons camps where 'transit Jews' awaited their chance to emigrate is a signifigant contribution to a little-known aspect of post-war history.
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Review
..."a very precise (and morbidly exciting) account of what wartime pressures made of those he knew. . . a tapestry of those minute personal choices, acts of complicity or resistance, which either pave the way to Aushwitz--and later to Srebrenica--or away from them. . ." --Peter Christoff, "Australian Book Review"
"İT¨he lost world of Polish Jewry has found a wry, faithful and utterly unsentimental chronicler." --Robert Manne, "Herald Sun"
.,."a very precise (and morbidly exciting) account of what wartime pressures made of those he knew. . . a tapestry of those minute personal choices, acts of complicity or resistance, which either pave the way to Aushwitz--and later to Srebrenica--or away from them. . ." --Peter Christoff, "Australian Book Review"
"[T]he lost world of Polish Jewry has found a wry, faithful and utterly unsentimental chronicler." --Robert Manne, "Herald Sun"
."..a very precise (and morbidly exciting) account of what wartime pressures made of those he knew. . . a tapestry of those minute personal choices, acts of complicity or resistance, which either pave the way to Aushwitz--and later to Srebrenica--or away from them. . ." --Peter Christoff, "Australian Book Review"
"[T]he lost world of Polish Jewry has found a wry, faithful and utterly unsentimental chronicler." --Robert Manne, "Herald Sun"
"A major work of sociological and historical signifigance...transcends the academic to become memorable journalism and literature..." --Sam Lipski, Jewish News
"Lipski's comparisons with Sholem Aleichem, the brothers Singer, and, even, the Russians Gogol, Gorky and Isaac Babel aren't all that fanciful..." --Max Teichmann, Eureka Street
..".a very precise (and morbidly exciting) account of what wartime pressures made of those he knew. . . a tapestry of those minute personal choices, acts of complicity or resistance, which either pave the way to Aushwitz--and later to Srebrenica--or away from them. . ." --Peter Christoff, Australian Book Review
About the Author
Mark Verstandig was born in 1912, the youngest son of Hassidic landowners, near Cracow, Poland. After the war he worked for several years as a journalist and businessman in Europe, and then emigrated to Melbourne, Australia where today he is a well-known Yiddish broadcaster, speaker, activist and writer. Felicity Verstandig is a writer in Melbourne, Australia, and the daughter of the author.
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0810119773
- ISBN 13 9780810119772
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages306
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