Memorbuch

Built from the tapes and notes of the publisher Adam Bromberg, which his daughters gave to the author, the novel tells his life as a near-autobiography. A communist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was a political prisoner, a slave in a Soviet labour camp, an officer at the front, the publisher behind a great Polish encyclopedia, then a target of the antisemitic purge of 1968, imprisoned and driven into exile. His story is that of an uprooted Polish-Jewish intelligentsia.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

356 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, Russia

First published

2000 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9788388221170 (original)