Awards
- Commended for National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust) 2009
Overview
The establishment and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience. Remarkably, a full history of the Ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts, and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English. The authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, the actual daily experience of its thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1940 to its liquidation following the uprising of 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the Jundenrat's administration. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka and the famous uprising. A series of original maps, along with biographies, a glossary, and a bibliography, completes this masterful work.
Full Product Details
Author: Barbara Engelking ,
Jacek Leociak
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 6.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.837kg
ISBN: 9780300112344
ISBN 10: 0300112343
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 01 July 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Finalist in the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category sponsored by the Jewish Book Council--National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category Finalist Jewish Book Council
A pathbreaking, original contribution to the Holocaust literature. These gifted scholars have succeeded in synthesizing complex evidence into a new and comprehensive tapestry of ghetto life.Nechama Tec, author of Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust -- Nechama Tec
It is a major achievement that this encyclopedia-like work also has an epic character, traces the fates of individual people, is full of emotions and empathy, and presents the entire diversity of Warsaw Jewry...No historical library, either private or public, can be complete without this volume. No scholar can work on the history of the Warsaw ghetto or the Holocaust in Poland without using this book, which, most certainly, will not be replaced by anything better for many years to come. --Piotr Wrobel, Slavic Review --Piotr Wr bel Slavic Review
Author Information
Barbara Engelking is professor and chief of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Jacek Leociak is head of the Research Team for Holocaust Literature Study at the Institute for Literary Researches, Polish Academy of Sciences. Both authors live in Warsaw.
