- Summary
- "Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as 'the dean of Jewish sociologists' and 'the father of Jewish demography,' Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened interest in interwar Jewish communities in Poland in recent years, these essays (like most of Leshchinsky's works) have never been translated into English"--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Oyfn rand fun opgrunṭ. English
- Variant Title
- Volume 1, At the edge of the abyss :
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Lestschinsky, Jacob, 1876-1966 author.
- Published
- Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2023]
©2023
- Locale
- Poland
Europe, Eastern
Pologne
Europe de l'Est
- Contents
-
On the sociology of Polish Jewry
The birth pangs of the Jewish working class
The heritage of the Jewish factory owner
National Bolshevism
A flood of small promissory notes
Jews are collapsing in the streets from hunger
At night in the old market
Three-quarters of the Jewish population lack enough to live on
The destruction of Jewish economic life in Lodz
Fallen Jewish Vilna
The superfluous
Emigration tragedies.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Brym, Robert J., 1951- translator, editor, writer of introduction.
Jany, Eli, translator.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On the sociology of Polish Jewry -- The birth pangs of the Jewish working class -- The heritage of the Jewish factory owner -- National Bolshevism -- A flood of small promissory notes -- Jews are collapsing in the streets from hunger -- At night in the old market -- Three-quarters of the Jewish population lack enough to live on -- The destruction of Jewish economic life in Lodz -- Fallen Jewish Vilna -- The superfluous -- Emigration tragedies.
