The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a
scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered
with conversations, personal observations and an acute observer's
reflections, focused on the fabric of life in the city of Lodz and
its vicinity. The author describes the "court" of the Hasidic
Rabbis of Alexander, with which his family was affiliated, the
rival camps of Hasidim and Zionists, industrialists and laborers,
struggles with the Polish authorities, and more. Detailed chapters
are dedicated to a description of studies at a modern
Jewish-Zionist high school (Gymnasium) - its exhilarating goals,
directors and teachers, to the Lodz poet Yitzhak Katzenelson before
and during the Holocaust, and to life in a small Polish shtetl. The
concluding chapter "Return to Poland" examines the cities and towns
described earlier in the book, as well as Breslau-Wroclaw, where
the author had completed his rabbinic and university studies in
1933, as they appeared to him during his visit in 1982, nearly
fifty years after his departure from Europe for Israel. The
author's aim was to produce a portrait, sympathetic, intimate, but
also knowledgeable and critical, of a generation that did not have
the time to take stock of itself before its obliteration. He has
thus rendered palpable the experiences and quandaries of many of
his contemporaries.
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