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Generations - A Millenium of Jewish History in Poland from the Earliest Times to the Holocaust Told by a Survivor from an Old Krakow Family (Paperback)
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Generations - A Millenium of Jewish History in Poland from the Earliest Times to the Holocaust Told by a Survivor from an Old Krakow Family (Paperback)
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GENERATIONS starts with the author's overview of Polish/Jewish
interactions over a thousand years from the times of Ibrahim ibn
Yakub, a Jewish traveler-merchant-diplomat from Arab Spain, who in
965 A.D. was the first to mention a town called Kracko and
continuing all the way to the Holocaust. It then proceeds from
pre-historic legends to historic details about Krakovian Jewish
courtiers serving the King Casimir the Great in 1350 and the Polish
Renaissance Queens Elizabeth of Bohemia and Bona Sforza around
1500, all at the royal court in Krakw. The major part of the book
deals with the history of Krakw Jewry as illuminated by the
specific lives and genealogy of the author's Aleksandrowicz
forebears and their friends and neighbors. It ends with the
author's experiences as a child in Krakw (1925-1943) and his
survival in the Ghetto, the concentration camps in Plaszw,
Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. The book is the result of 11 years of
research. It contains a number of copies of original historic
family documents written in archaic Polish, which the author
transcribed and translated into English, scores of other documents
and photographs, a bibliography and an index.
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