A memoir of an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. It describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries.
A memoir of an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. It describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries.
Nancy Sinkoff is associate professor of Jewish studies and history at Rutgers University, specializing in the history of Eastern European Jewry. She is the author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Yidishkayt and the Making of Lucy S. Dawidowicz Preface PART I 1 From New York to Vilna 2 Vilna: A City of the Past 3 Living from Day to Day 4 The YIVO: The Ministry of Yiddish 5 In the Realm of Yiddish: On the Periphery 6 In the Realm of Yiddish: At the Center 7 Rich and Poor, Right and Left 8 Them and Us 9 Flight PART II 10 New York 1939-1942: War Watch 11 New York 1942-1943: Death Watch 12 New York 1944-1945: The Reckoning PART III 13 In the Land of Amalek 14 Saving Remnants Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Yidishkayt and the Making of Lucy S. Dawidowicz Preface PART I 1 From New York to Vilna 2 Vilna: A City of the Past 3 Living from Day to Day 4 The YIVO: The Ministry of Yiddish 5 In the Realm of Yiddish: On the Periphery 6 In the Realm of Yiddish: At the Center 7 Rich and Poor, Right and Left 8 Them and Us 9 Flight PART II 10 New York 1939-1942: War Watch 11 New York 1942-1943: Death Watch 12 New York 1944-1945: The Reckoning PART III 13 In the Land of Amalek 14 Saving Remnants Index
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