Who Will Say Kaddish?

Who Will Say Kaddish?
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 0815607199
ISBN-13 : 9780815607199
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Book Synopsis Who Will Say Kaddish? by : Larry Mayer

Download or read book Who Will Say Kaddish? written by Larry Mayer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Will Say Kaddish? is an exploration of the fragile resurgence of Jewish life and identity in post-Communist Poland. 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 exterminated and their once-vibrant culture all but destroyed. In this book Larry Mayer and Gary Gelb, themselves descendants of Polish Jews, explore reports that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern Poland. What they discover are three generations of Jews-Holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren-with differing historical perspectives. As survivors' descendants learn of their hidden Jewish heritage through deathbed revelations, a compelling drama about personal identity unfolds. Mayer and Gelb chronicle a new chapter in the life of Poland's Jewish community as the present generation seeks to celebrate its members' recent freedom and to honor the rich traditions of their forebears. Through interviews, photography, reportage, and personal memoir Who Will Say Kaddish? creates a sociocultural portrait of the multilayered community of renewed Jewish life and tradition in Poland that has emerged since the fall of the Communist regime in 1989.


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