The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

by Antony Polonsky

For many centuries Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world: right up to the Second World War the area was home to over 40 per cent of the world's Jews. Nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, with nearly three million more in the Soviet Union. Yet although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United States, and a large proportion of the Jews of Israel, originate from these lands, and many of the major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906764395
• ISBN13: 9781906764395
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"