{"product_id":"together-and-apart-in-brzezany-9780253340740","title":"Together and Apart in Brzezany","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe impact of World War II and the Holocaust on a multiethnic community in Eastern Poland, seen through the eyes of its Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian inhabitants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRedlich (Ben-Gurion Univ.) wears several hats: he is a Holocaust survivor, a historian, and a sentimental returnee to his childhood hometown, Brzezany. He endeavors to meld a strand of idyllic memory of life in a multicultural town where Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians lived side by side with the nightmare that the Germans brought to his community. Since the author was only five years old when WW II began, he relied mostly on the historian in his persona to reconstruct the story of his and the town's travails. The narrative is basically chronological, beginning with the Soviet occupation of Brzezany and ending with the Red Army's return in 1944. The book's core is about the Holocaust, how the town's Jews were killed, and how part of Redlich's family managed to survive with the help of local Ukrainians. Each chapter is introduced, before the historian takes over, by the child's memories in italics. Redlich tells his tale without bitterness or stereotyping any of the people with whom he grew up. Well footnoted, the book is recommended for all college and public libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e -- A. Ezergailis * Ithaca College , 2002dec CHOICE. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Table of Contents: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003cbr\u003eONE: My Return\u003cbr\u003eTWO: Close and Distant Neighbors\u003cbr\u003eTHREE: The Good Years, 1919–1939\u003cbr\u003eFOUR: The Soviet Interlude, 1939–1941\u003cbr\u003eFIVE: The German Occupation, 1941–1944\u003cbr\u003eSIX: The Aftermath, 1944–1945\u003cbr\u003eSEVEN: Their Return\u003cbr\u003eConcluding Remarks\u003cbr\u003eInterviews\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations of Names of Archives\u003cbr\u003eBibliography and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400676811095,"sku":"9780253340740","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/together-and-apart-in-brzezany-9780253340740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}