A History of East European Jews by Heiko Haumann. From the back cover: "The origins and life of East European Jewry (sometimes referred to simply as Ostjuden) took on new historical and political importance after the Holocaust. Two thirds of European Jewry and about one third of the world's Jewish population were murdered by the Nazis. In Poland alone three million in all -- 99 per cent of Polish Jews -- were killed; Yiddish as a spoken language more or less disappeared. This volume presents a history of East European Jewry from its beginnings to the period after the Holocaust. It gives an overview of the demographic, political, socio-economic, religious and cultural condition of Jewish communities in Poland, Russia, Bohemia and Moravia.
- paperback
- published in 2003
- 284 pages
- pages unmarked, likely unread
- minimal shelf wear
- ISBN 9789639241268
Published by Central European University Press out of Budapest.
About the author: Heiko Haumann is Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University of Basel.