Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press - Twenty years with the jewish labor bund: a memoir of interwar poland, paperback/bernard goldstein

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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 attention and demands respect for the v.