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DAVIES, NORMAN. Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. (The author is a British professor considered a leading authority on Polish history, but this book is appallingly anti-Semitic.)
DOBROSZYCKI, LUCJAN, ed. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
GEBERT, KONSTANTY. “Anti-Semitism in the 1990 Polish Presidential Election,” Social Research, vol. 58, no. 4 (Winter 1991).
GUTMAN, YLSRAEL, EZRA MENDELSOHN, JEHUDA REINHARZ, and CHONE SHMERUK, eds. The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989.
HALKOWSKI, HENRYK. “Cracow, ‘City and Mother to Israel,’ “ in Cracow: Dialogue of Traditions. Cracow: Znak, 1991.
HERTZ, ALEKSANDER. The Jews in Polish Culture. Evanston, 111.: Northwestern University Press, 1988.
KLEIN, THEO. UAffaire du Carmel dAuschwitz. Paris: Jacques Bertoin, 1991.
KRALL, HANNA. Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York:. Henry Holt, 1986 (almost unbearably artsy approach, but Edelman is fascinating).
PEASE, NEAL. Poland, the United States and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
TOLLET, DANIEL. Histoire des juifs en Pologne du XVIe siecle a nos jours. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris, 1992.
Soviet Union
GUELMAN, ZVI. A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union —1881 to the Present. New York: Schocken Books, 1988.
PINKUS, BENJAMIN. The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
RAPOPORT, LOUIS. Stalin S War Against the Jews: The Doctor's Plot and the Soviet Solution. New York: The Free Press, 1990.
FICTION
KONRAD, GEORGE. A Feast in the Garden. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 (semi-autobiographical novel of growing up in the Holocaust in Hungary through four decades of Hungarian Communism).
OZICK, CYNTHIA. The Shawl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 (brilliant fictional portrayal of an anguished survivor).
WEIL, GRETE. The Bride Price, translated by John Barrett. Boston: David Godine, 1992 (a novel weaving the experiences of a German Jewish survivor with the biblical story of David).
WEIL, JIRI. Mendelssohn Is on the Roof translated by Marie Winn. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992 (a sparkling tragicomic novel about Nazi-occupied Prague).
A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
Thank you is not enough to say to some 150 Jewish people who gave up their time and their privacy and were often willing to stir up the worst of memories to help me understand. They all have my deep affection.
I cannot find the words to thank Christine Toomey, who put many hours into this book, for all her interest, generosity, uncompromising intelligence, and the integrity to tell me whenever I was wrong. At a hundred turns she made this book far better than it would have been.
Also thanks to: Rabbi Chaskel Besser for his advice; Rabbi Her-shl Gluck for his help in the Czech and Slovak Republics; Hanna Kordowicz for her generous help, guidance, and friendship in Poland; Edith Kurzweil for her time, her thoughtful and well-informed advice, and her interest; the Mandls in Brno for their hospitality; Carol Mann who helped me through a couple of tough years; my agent Charlotte Sheedy for her wisdom and generosity; Eleanor Michael for her friendship and for sharing both her personal insights and the work of her father Harry Maor; Nancy Miller, my editor, for her clearheaded guidance and her steadfast vote of confidence; Jack and Rubye Monet, whose home was an oasis of warmth and humor; Linda Polman for her help and hospitality in Amsterdam; Daniel and Lynda Altmann for making me feel welcome in their home and community; Yale Reisner for both Russian and Hebrew translations; Irene Runge for her enthu.
A Chosen Few
MARK KURLANSKY
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