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A32=Justyna Wlodarczyk
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B01=Holli Levitsky
B01=Justyna Wlodarczyk
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Communist Crimes
Communist Propaganda
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Jewish Communists
Jews under Communism
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Polish Antisemitism
Postwar Poland
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Product details
- ISBN 9781498577502
- Weight: 508g
- Dimensions: 163 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman’s Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many others. This is the first published edition of this text, originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and Justyna Wlodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
Holli Levitsky is founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program and professor of English at Loyola Marymount University.
Justyna Wlodarczyk is associate professor and chair of the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures at the University of Warsaw.
