Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945

by Shimon Redlich

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""... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement."" -Jan T. Gross, author of NeighborsShimon Redlich draws on the historical record, his own childhood memories, and interviews with Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians who lived in the small eastern Polish town of Brzezany to construct this account of the changing show more relationships among the town's three ethnic groups before, during, and after World War II. He show less

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יחד ולחוד בבז׳ז׳ני / Yaḥad u-leḥud be-Bez'ez'eni : Polanim, Yehudim ṿe-Uḳraʼinim, 1919-1945
Author: רדליך, שמעון. שמעון רדליך; מאגלית: איילת סקסטין. סקסטין, איילת. ; Shimon Redlich; Ayelet Sackstein

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