Description:
This is the first instalment of a multi-volume edition of Poyln, the first English translation to be published. Here begins a story of the beauty and pathos of the world of Polish Jewry, a world that was almost totally destroyed by the Nazis.
Brief description:
Yehiel Yeshaia trunk(1887-1961) was a Yiddish essayist and writer.
Review Quotes:
'The editors of Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland have produced a volume both accessible and original in its approach ... the value of the memoirs lie primarily in their portraits of the Jewish elite - of the grimy, sexual, foul-smelling realities of everyday life in the nineteenth century.'