Profiles of a Lost World

Memoirs of East European Jewish Life Before World War II

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Hirsz Abramowicz

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Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

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First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, ""Profiles of a Lost World"" is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his writings provide an eyewitness account of Jewish life during the first half of the 20th century. Abramowicz was a witness to war, revolution and major cultural transformations in the Jewish world. His essays, written and originally published in Yiddish between 1920 and 1955, document the local history of Lithuanian Jewry in rural and small-town settings, and in the city of Vilna - the ""Jerusalem of Lithuania"" - which was a major centre of East European Jewish intellectual and cultural life. They shed light on the daily life of Jews and the flourishing of modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century and offer a personal perspective on the rise of Jewish radical politics. The collection incorporates local history of Lithuanian Jewry, shtetl folklore, observations on rural occupations, Jewish education, and life under German occupation during World War I. It also includes a series of profiles of leading social and intellectual Jewish personalities of the author's day, from traditional scholars to revolutionaries. Together the selections provide a blend of social and personal history and a window on a lost world.

Author Biography:

Hirsz Abramowicz was a teacher and school administrator in Tsarist Russia and in interwar Vilna and later a journalist for American and foreign Jewish newspapers. Dina Abramowicz, the author's daughter, is a reference librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Jeffrey Shandler is a Dorot Teaching Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Eva Zeitlin Dobkin has translated numerous works from Yiddish. David E. Fishman is the chair of the Department of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a senior research associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

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April 30th, 1999

Author

Hirsz Abramowicz

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Introduction by David E. Fishman
Introduction by Dina Abramowicz
Translated by E.Z. Dobkin
Translated by Eva Zeitlin Dodkin
Volume editor Dina Abramowicz
Volume editor Jeffrey Shandler

Illustrations

20 illustrations

Pages

448

Series

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9780814327845

Product ID

5308432

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