Polish Jews in Paris; The Ethnography of Memory
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 195, [1] pages. Footnotes. This is one of the Modern Jewish Experience series. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, and Introduction. Part 1--The Work of the Past; Part 2--Pieces of the Mirror; Postscript. References, and Index. Part 1 includes chapters on Children of the Century, From The Pale to The City of Light, Maybe There is a God, and Getting By. Part 2 has chapters on Reports of the War in Lebanon, Dejuner Solennel, High Culture and Folklore, Leaders and Intellectuals, Mourning, Children and Other Strangers, and Postscript--The Landslay and The End of the Century. "This book chronicles the stubborn persistence of that community and its members efforts to construct a collective memory of their generation. It focuses on the immigrant societies known as landsmanshaftn and on other immigrant institutions that help keep Yiddish culture alive and involve the immigrants in the politics of the Jewish and wider worlds." from the jacket flap. More