First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost
World is an incomparable source of information about Eastern Europe
before World War II as well as an invaluable touchstone for
understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz
Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer, and
cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his
writings provide a rare eyewitness account of Jewish life during
the first half of the twentieth century.
Abramowicz was a witness to war, revolution, and major cultural
transformations in the Jewish world. His essays, written and
originally published in Yiddish between 1920 and 1955, document the
local history of Lithuanian Jewry in rural and small-town settings,
and in the city of Vilna -- the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" -- which
was a major center of East European Jewish intellectual and
cultural life. They shed important light on the daily life of Jews
and the flourishing of modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe
during the early twentieth century and offer a personal perspective
on the rise of Jewish radical politics.
The collection incorporates local history of Lithuanian Jewry,
shtetl folklore, observations on rural occupations, Jewish
education, and life under German occupation during World War I. It
also includes a series of profiles of leading social and
intellectual Jewish personalities of the authors day, from
traditional scholars to revolutionaries. Together the selections
provide a unique blend of social and personal history and a window
on a lost world.
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