Research Catalog

Title

From that place and time : a memoir, 1938-1947 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Author

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Publication

New York : Bantam Books, 1991.

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Details

Description

xiv, 333 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pesachʼke Burstein and Lillian Lux Yiddish Theater Archive

Uniform Title

Pesachʼke Burstein and Lillian Lux Yiddish Theater Archive.

Subject

• Dawidowicz, Lucy S. > Travel > Lithuania > Vilnius
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
• 1939-1945
• Jews > Lithuania > Vilnius
• Yiddish language > Lithuania > Vilnius
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Jewish
• Holocaust survivors > Germany (West)
• Vilnius (Lithuania) > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – Jewish

Note

• Maps on lining papers.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. From New York to Vilna. -- 2. Vilna: A city of the past. -- 3. Living from day to day. -- 4. The YIVO: The Ministry of Yiddish. -- 5. In the realm of Yiddish: On the periphery. -- 6. In the realm of Yiddish: At the center. -- 7. Rich and poor, right and left. -- 8. Them and us. -- 9. Flight. -- 10. New York 1939-1942: War watch. -- 11. New York 1942-1943: Death watch. -- 12. New York 1944-1945: The reckoning. -- 13. In the land of Amalek. -- 14. Saving remnants.

ISBN

• 0553352482
• 9780553352481

OCLC

• 23365355
• SCSB-11309624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library