To our children memoirs of displacement : a Jewish journey of hope and survival in twentieth-century Poland and beyond /

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Author / Creator: Szer, Włodzimierz, 1924-2013 (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Karst, Bronisława, translator.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Language notes:Translated from the Polish.
Imprint: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Series:Jews of Poland.
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
Description
Summary:This book takes the reader through Dr. Włodzimierz Szer's childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and imprisonment in wartime Russia, to the brutal reality of immediate postwar Poland, and the years of the socialist regime. Although largely autobiographical, the book provides a historically and intellectually compelling analysis of the social and political situation in Poland and Soviet Russia from the early 1930s to 1967.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781618114792 (online)
9781644691861 (online)
Author Notes:Włodzimierz Szer was a Professor of Biochemistry at NYU, who authored 170 papers, educated generations of students, and raised a family. He spoke several languages fluently and flawlessly, including Polish, English, Yiddish, and Russian. He loved chess, travel, good company, food, and a drink. He was politically astute, deeply well-informed, and a wonderful storyteller.