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OverviewTo Kasieka from Grandpa is a document of a personal and family memory, authored by Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki (18901958) in 1944/45. This memoir, which was written in Polish and translated to English for the family circulation alone, now becomes a public asset. Lilien invites his new-born granddaughter to encounter her family, generations of Polish Jewry: merchants, lease-holders, bankers, industrialists, politicians, communal leaders, army officers, scholars, physicians, artists, and art collectors. They dwell in a broad Jewish and Christian world, integrated into the national life of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg Empire, and the Second Polish Republic. The reader is encouraged to enjoy reminiscences of this worthy life and bitter choices that challenged Polish-particularly Galician-Jewry in the twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki , Marya Lilien-Czarnecka , Joanna Grun , Sergey R. KravtsovPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9781618114976ISBN 10: 1618114972 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 19 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsArtur Lilien-Brozdowiecki's family memoirs have a particular, intimate, charming quality, involving the reader in his family chronicle lovingly written for his little granddaughter. He proudly presents his lineage--from the era of emancipation, through a staunch Polish assimilation, to World War II--seven generations of Liliens and the closely related great Jewish families of Brody and Lemberg/ Lwow/ Lviv, remarkable Jewish men and women. A Jewish success story is rising from modest origins to financial standing, responsible positions in Jewish community as well as in general public bodies. Many of the lively described relatives are portrayed in beautiful illustrations published for the first time. --Dr. Victoria Lunzer-Talos, Head of the Art History Library, Vienna University Author InformationDr. Sergey R. Kravtsov is a researcher at the Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was trained as an architect in his native Lviv, Ukraine, received his doctoral degree in architectural history in 1993, and has worked at the Hebrew University since 1994. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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