Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950 (Memoirs, Polish Studies) (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History) - Hardcover

Redlich, Shimon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1936235218 ISBN 13: 9781936235216

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2010

Synopsis

Tells the story of Shimon Redlich's adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich’s personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during the immediate postwar years. Redlich’s research ndicates that although the survivors still lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, postwar Jewish Lodz was permeated with a sense of vitality and hope.

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Review:

“Life in Transit is populated by living, breathing people—rendered unfiltered by Redlich—who, in the shadow of the Holocaust, evinced a tremendous will to live. . . . [T]he distinctive contribution of Life in Transit is its emphasis, as shown through the lens of the remarkable Lodz Jewish community, on the vitality of the remaining remnant. Far from being dispirited, demoralized, or helpless, these Jews were protagonists both in their own survival during the Holocaust and in the rebirth of Jewry in its aftermath. In portraying this community—and, in so doing, revising the predominant historiographical reconstruction of postwar Polish Jewry—Redlich has produced a wondrous book.” - Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol 27, The Social Scientific Study of Jewry

About the Author:

Shimon Redlich (Ph.D. New York University) was born in Lwow, Poland in 1935 and lived in the nearby town of Brzezany where most of his family was annihilated during the Holocaust. He and his mother survived with the help of a Polish family and a Ukrainian peasant woman. The author lived in the city of Lodz in the years 1945-1950 and emigrated to Israel in early 1950. He served as Professor of Modern History at Ben-Gurion University until his retirement in 2003. Redlich published books and articles on the History of the Jews in the Soviet Union and on Ukrainian-Jewish relations. He is author of War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented History of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR and Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1936235218
• ISBN 13: 9781936235216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282