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A Memoir
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From that Place and Time
ghostly post-war period
history
Jewish displaced persons
Jewish history
Jewish Scientific Institute
Jewish studies
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
memoir
Munich
Nancy Sinkoff
New York YIVO
pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe
Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries
Yiddish language
Yiddish language and Jewish history
YIVO
Product details
- ISBN 9780813543628
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From that Place and Time is the memoir of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, 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. Escaping Poland only days before the Nazi onslaught, she worked in the New York YIVO during the war, and returned to Europe from 1946 to 1947 to aid Jewish displaced persons in Munich and Belsen with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Dawidowicz's memoir not only describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, but also treats the ghostly post-war period, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries.
Nancy Sinkoff's new introduction explores the historical forces, particularly the dynamic world of secular Yiddish culture, which shaped Dawidowicz's decision to journey to Poland and her reassessment of those forces in the last years of her life.
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.
