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Life in Transit
Shimon Redlich
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Description for Life in Transit
Hardback. Lodz, in the years 1945-1950 was the second largest city in the country and the major urban centre of Jewish population. A sequel to "Together and Apart in Brzezany", in which the author discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust, this book tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz, in post-war Poland. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 558.
The sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed "Together and Apart in Brzezany", in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust, "Life in Transit" tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz, in post-war Poland. Redlich's personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during the immediate post-war years. Lodz, in the years 1945-1950 was the second largest city in the country and the major urban centre of Jewish population. Redlich's research based on conventional sources and numerous interviews indicates that although the survivors still ... Read more
The sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed "Together and Apart in Brzezany", in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust, "Life in Transit" tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz, in post-war Poland. Redlich's personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during the immediate post-war years. Lodz, in the years 1945-1950 was the second largest city in the country and the major urban centre of Jewish population. Redlich's research based on conventional sources and numerous interviews indicates that although the survivors still ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235216
SKU
V9781936235216
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About Shimon Redlich
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Life in Transit
“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, ... Read more