Author

Publication

1999-11-06 - Metropolitan Books

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99014178
  • Goodreads2197106
  • LibraryThing378052

Classifications

  • LCCDS135.P6 K323 1999

Description

"In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was commissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, the Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in the "old country." Kacyzne's assignment would become a ten-year journey across Poland - or "Poyln," as more than three million Yiddish-speaking Jews called their home - from the crowded quarters of Warsaw and Lublin to the remote towns of Husiatyn and Ostrog. His candid and intimate views of teeming village square and rustic workshops, synagogues, and spinning wheels give us a priveleged view of a world that is no more."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The old castle and the synagogue (right), connected by an underground passage

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Other Editions

  • Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old CountryHardcoverMetropolitan Books1999-11-06

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