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Journey to Poland: A German Novelist Seeks His Jewish Roots on the Eve of the Nazis' Rise to Power

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Fascinated by the nature of the Jewish identity, Doeblin, the author of "Berlin Alexanderplatz", a non-practising Jew in Berlin in the 1920s, decided to visit Poland to try to discover his Jewish roots. This book is a record of that journey. He describes Polish-Jewish language and tradition, the striking costumes and colourful markets, and the terrible poverty that surrounded everything. The book is both a personal investigation into ancestry and a portrait of a unique society on the eve of its destruction.

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Journey to Poland: A German Novelist Seeks His Jewish Roots on the Eve of the Nazis' Rise to Power 1991, I.B. Tauris

ISBN-13: 9781850433637

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Hardcover