Generations: A Millenium of Jewish History in Poland from the Earliest Times to the Holocaust Told by a Survivor from an Old Krakow

by George J. Alexander

GENERATIONS starts with the author's overview of Polish/Jewish interactions over a thousand years from the times of Ibrahim ibn Yakub, a Jewish traveler-merchant-diplomat from Arab Spain, who in 965 A.D. was the first to mention a town called Kracko and continuing all the way to the Holocaust. It then proceeds from pre-historic legends to historic details about Krakovian Jewish courtiers serving the King Casimir the Great in 1350 and the Polish Renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972456562
• ISBN13: 9780972456562
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Congress for Jewish Culture
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"