9780815633341-0815633343-Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Modern Jewish History)

Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Modern Jewish History)

ISBN-13: 9780815633341
ISBN-10: 0815633343
Author: Katarzyna Person
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780815633341
ISBN-10: 0815633343
Author: Katarzyna Person
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Modern Jewish History) (ISBN-13: 9780815633341 and ISBN-10: 0815633343), written by authors Katarzyna Person, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Jewish (History, Judaism, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Modern Jewish History) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Jewish books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.

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Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded ghetto away from the non-Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos, a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized Jews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable to merge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remaining in a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with the closure of the Jewish residential quarter in Warsaw, their identity was chosen for them.

Person looks at what it meant for assimilated Jews to leave their prewar neighborhoods, understood as both a physical environment and a mixed Polish Jewish cultural community, and to enter a new, Jewish neighborhood. She reveals the diversity of this group and how its members’ identity shaped their involvement in and contribution to ghetto life. In the first English-language study of this small but influential group, Person illuminates the important role of the acculturated and assimilated Jews in the history and memory of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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