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Jewish Ludmir
Volodymir Muzynchenko
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Description for Jewish Ludmir
Hardback. Series: Jews of Poland. Num Pages: 378 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
This volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several important historical figures, including Shelomoh of Karlin and Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir). It also considers the city’s synagogues and Jewish cemetery, and explores the twentieth-century history of the community, especially during the Holocaust. Drawing on survivor eyewitness testimonies, the author pays tribute to the town’s Righteous among the Nations and describes efforts to preserve the memory ... Read more
This volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several important historical figures, including Shelomoh of Karlin and Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir). It also considers the city’s synagogues and Jewish cemetery, and explores the twentieth-century history of the community, especially during the Holocaust. Drawing on survivor eyewitness testimonies, the author pays tribute to the town’s Righteous among the Nations and describes efforts to preserve the memory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Series
Jews of Poland
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618114129
SKU
V9781618114129
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Ref
99-15
About Volodymir Muzynchenko
Volodymyr Muzychenko was born in Sarny, Ukraine. He graduated from the Rivine Music College and the Rivne State Institute of Culture. Since 1988, he has lived in Volodymyr-Volynskiy where he teaches guitar at a children’s music school and is the head of the town’s small Jewish community. Muzychenko has researched the history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky extensively and ... Read more
Reviews for Jewish Ludmir
“Volodymyr Muzychenko . . . committed the last ten years of his life to gathering historical data on the Jews of his city and the region. His work is thus the first and fullest narrative to date about the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky. . . . The book is noteworthy for its balanced material and the author’s desire to avoid a ... Read more