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“Not the End, Not the Beginning: The Postwar Choices of Polish Jews” (title translated by AI)

Anna Bikont (born 1954)

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Jewish farmers in Lower Silesia give their cows Yiddish names; others rebuild religious life, publish newspapers, run schools, go into politics, try to leave Poland illegally, wait months for a train or a ship, seek justice in court in vain, gather testimony of the Holocaust, plan to poison the water of German cities. Alone, often guilty at having survived, surrounded by hostility and sometimes in mortal danger, they had to decide what next: stay or leave the great cemetery, keep their Jewish tradition or hide their origins. The book tells the whole story of those years.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
407 pages in the original
Genres
Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
Poland
First published
2025 by Wydawnictwo Czarne
Author's age
71 when first published
ISBN

9788383960449 (original)