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On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars

On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars

By Celia Heller

Columbia University Press, 1977, 369 pp.

A political and sociological study, reflecting both careful scholarship and personal commitment, of the status and life of Polish Jewry before the holocaust: religious traditions; social conditions; the question of assimilation; political movements (communism, socialism, and Zionism); the depth of Polish anti-Semitism, and the Jewish reaction to it.