Description
Book SynopsisThe sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed "Together and Apart in Brzezany", in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust, "Life in Transit" tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz, in post-war Poland. Redlich's personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during the immediate post-war years. Lodz, in the years 1945-1950 was the second largest city in the country and the major urban centre of Jewish population. Redlich's research based on conventional sources and numerous interviews indicates that although the survivors still lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, post-war Jewish Lodz was permeated with a sense of vitality and hope.
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Life in Transit is populated by living, breathing people—rendered unfiltered by Redlich—who, in the shadow of the Holocaust, evinced a tremendous will to live. . . . [T]he distinctive contribution of
Life in Transit is its emphasis, as shown through the lens of the remarkable Lodz Jewish community, on the vitality of the remaining remnant. Far from being dispirited, demoralized, or helpless, these Jews were protagonists both in their own survival during the Holocaust and in the rebirth of Jewry in its aftermath. In portraying this community—and, in so doing, revising the predominant historiographical reconstruction of postwar Polish Jewry—Redlich has produced a wondrous book.” - Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol 27, The Social Scientific Study of Jewry
