TORNE: KIYEM UN HURBN FUN A YIDISHER SHTOT טארנע: קיום און חורבן פון א יידישער שטאט
Tel Aviv: Aroysgegeben durkh Landsmanshaftn fun Torner Yidn, 1954. Item #43017
First edition. 8vo. Original printed boards. xx, 928 pages, includes illustrations, facsimiles, map, and portraits. 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Tarnow: Existence and Destruction of a Jewish City.”
Memorial book for the community of Tarnow in Poland. Includes essays on the religious and political life of Jews in Tarnow and essays on the various diasporic communities where they established landsmanshaftn. Includes bibliographical references and index.
“Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Krakow (Cracow). Jews—whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century—comprised about half of the town's total population. A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnow was devoted to garment and hat manufacturing. The Jewish community was ideologically diverse and included both religious Hasidim and secular Zionists.” (USHMM).
SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Poland -- Tarnow (Wojewo´dztwo Malopolskie) -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Tarnow (Wojewo´dztwo Malopolskie) Ethnic relations. Jews. OCLC: 19197168.
Some tears and discoloration. Good+ Condition. (YIZ-23-58-CCLEX+).
Price: $200.00