From That Place and Time A Memoir 19381947 eBook Lucy S Dawidowicz
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In this memoir, Lucy S. Dawidowicz recounts her time in Vilna where she went to study in 1938-39. She also reconstructs the history of Vilna Jews through the centuries and gives a first-hand account of Vilna’s Jewish community right before its destruction by the Nazis. Dawidowicz fled days before the German invasion of Poland, and returned to the American zone in Germany in 1946-47 to help Jews in Displaced Persons camps with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. It was in that role that Dawidowicz helped salvage remnants of YIVO’s Vilna archives that were shipped to New York.
“Dawidowicz, a well-known historian of the Jews, has presented us... a memoir on Vilna, a city she left on Aug. 24, 1939, just before World War II began. It is a tremendous collection of facts and names. There are sketches depicting the everyday life of a thriving community and reflections upon its unique culture. But the book is more than that it is a monument to the community destroyed, not by forces of nature, but by the evil human hand.” — Tomas Venclova, The New York Times
“In this deeply moving personal reminiscence, eminent historian Dawidowicz recounts the year she spent in Vilna, Poland [in 1938-39]... [a] poignant memoir... Her piercingly eloquent narrative gives us a sharp first-hand impression of a world in ruins and of the irreparable losses suffered by European Jewry.” — Publishers Weekly
“The story of Dawidowicz’s early years and a tribute to the Jewish community and culture of Vilna... Crammed with descriptive details of a people and culture now destroyed and of WW II's chaotic aftermath chastening, compelling, powerful.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A leading historian of the Holocaust, Dawidowicz transports the reader from 1938, when she studied in Vilna, Poland, through 1946, when she returned to Europe to assist Jewish survivors. This is a powerful and absorbing memoir” — Library Journal
“Lucy Dawidowicz's memoir comprises several books for the price of one it portrays Jewish Vilna as the plucky American student encountered it in 1938, describes the fate of Jewish cultural treasures as she helped recover them after the War, and exposes the mind and spirit of an intrepid historian-in-the making.” — Ruth R. Wisse, Harvard University
“Lucy Dawidowicz was an historian of monumental importance, best known for her classic The War Against the Jews. But she was also a vital chronicler of the world of European Jewry before its destruction... [A] compelling memoir of Vilna on the brink of destruction.” — Jonathan Rosen, author of The Talmud and the Internet A Journey Between Worlds
From That Place and Time A Memoir 19381947 eBook Lucy S Dawidowicz
I have read this book twice, written by noted historian Lucy Dawidowicz, and I found it to be a fascinating history and diary of a time when she traveled from New York to pre-war Vilnius, Lithuania (at that time in Poland) to study Yiddish. It gives a portrait and view of the city, then known as The Jerusalem of the North, and its Jewish inhabitants and the lives they lived just before total annihilation by the invading Nazis. Readers are introduced to families, to inhabitants, to social circles that existed at a time when life was somewhat "normal". Lucy escaped just before World War II broke out and returned to New York to anxiously await the fates of all those wonderful people to whom we had been introduced in her book. The reality of "after the war" is total destruction, lost families, horrific suffering, murder on an industrial scale and the wiping out of a Jewish community that had existed in Vilnius for centuries. She writes in an engaging and educated style, and you can't help but grieve with her when she returns to Europe after the war to help with classifying stolen libraries and other items and realizes that much of what she finds was looted from Vilnius.Product details
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From That Place and Time A Memoir 19381947 eBook Lucy S Dawidowicz Reviews
I got this book because of the good review. I found it to be a weak effort.
As a counterpoint to her more comprehensive scholarly work on the holocaust, this book provides several personal vignettes of that period in history. Beginning in New York City the account covers making arrangements for the trip, the author's stay in Vilna, a center of Jewish culture in Poland including elements of daily life, cultural, and political events, her narrow escape from Poland as the Nazi invasion progresses, and the finally agonizing wait in New York as news of the insuing catastrophy arrives in bits and pieces. This book provides insight into what it was like to live through that period in history, and may help those close to them to understand people who actually lived through it.
How is it possible that only 3 people have reviewed this book? You'd think it would be on the required reading list of every history of eastern Europe, or every person who wants to prevent the worst moments of history from repeating themselves.
This book tells the story of a young girl spending a year in Europe. Only thing is, this happened to be eastern Europe on the brink of World War II. Seen through the discerning eyes of an attractive 20-something year old, history becomes story.
I bought this book when it first appeared and eagerly raced through the reading. Now, several years older and wiser, I am re-reading it, mentally collecting the information and savoring the personal insights. It is worth a slow and careful re-read.
Utterly Unusual and Unbelievable! A young American college student, having a fun year in Poland, is asked to return to, literally, pick up the pieces of life from merely a few years before. Highly readable. Highly recommended.
One of the most telling memoirs to come out of World War 11
This is one of Judaism's hidden treasures. The story of a young New York Jewish woman who went to Vilna, Lithuania in 1939 as an exchange student and returned home two weeks before the Nazi's invaded and subsequently destroyed every last vestige of Judaism from Eastern Europe. Beautifully written as an exercise in the powers of memory by an extraodinary woman remembering events that took place decades in the past, it is a book that will reward your efforts to track it down.
I have read this book twice, written by noted historian Lucy Dawidowicz, and I found it to be a fascinating history and diary of a time when she traveled from New York to pre-war Vilnius, Lithuania (at that time in Poland) to study Yiddish. It gives a portrait and view of the city, then known as The Jerusalem of the North, and its Jewish inhabitants and the lives they lived just before total annihilation by the invading Nazis. Readers are introduced to families, to inhabitants, to social circles that existed at a time when life was somewhat "normal". Lucy escaped just before World War II broke out and returned to New York to anxiously await the fates of all those wonderful people to whom we had been introduced in her book. The reality of "after the war" is total destruction, lost families, horrific suffering, murder on an industrial scale and the wiping out of a Jewish community that had existed in Vilnius for centuries. She writes in an engaging and educated style, and you can't help but grieve with her when she returns to Europe after the war to help with classifying stolen libraries and other items and realizes that much of what she finds was looted from Vilnius.
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