Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry: Volume Seventeen: The Shtetl: Myth and Reality by Antony Polonsky
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Overview: Polish shtetls under Russian rule and Soviet shtetls in the 1920s; and a contemporary account of returning to visit a shtetl. Other articles consider how shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature. The New Views section analyses the work of the Russian Jewish writer Lev Levanda and the correspondence of an interwar Polish Jew,Wolf Lewkowicz. There are also two articles on the ‘Gesiówka’ concentration camp established by the Nazis to clear the remains of the Warsaw ghetto. A special section is devoted to whether the incidents in Przytyk in 1936 constituted a pogrom, while another is devoted to discussing two important documents illustrating Wladyslaw Gomulka’s attitude to Jews.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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