Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland

by Marvin S. Zuckerman, Bernard Goldstein, Bernard Goldstein

Bernard Goldstein's memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a corrective view in the form of social history, one that commands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557537496
• ISBN13: 9781557537492
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"