https://i126.fastpic.org/thumb/2026/0113/8c/_b50f1bb0882d615808db3144d8d9358c.jpeg
The Nighttime Butterfly A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | 5.52 MB
Title: The Nighttime Butterfly
Author: Karen Auerbach
Category: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Nonfiction, History
Language: English | 399 Pages | ISBN: 9780008322649
Description:
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism
When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did not have to choose between two communities, one Polish and the other Jewish. But by the time Alicja was growing up in the 1890s, it seemed that for some Polish nationalists there was little Jews could do to be accepted unequivocally as Poles. As Alicja entered young womanhood and her father, a prominent publisher, became the target of polemics casting him as an outsider in Polish culture, her mother came to believe that only through her daughters' conversion to Catholicism and marriage to Catholic men could their family achieve acceptance in Polish society. The Lewentals' lives and their aspirations for belonging played out in Warsaw's homes, salons, and bookstores in a modernizing...
DOWNLOAD:
Книги
