Product Description: The socialist ideals of brotherhood, equality, and justice have exercised a strong attraction for many Jews. On the Polish lands, Jews were drawn to socialism when the liberal promise of integration into the emergent national entities of eastòand central Europe as Poles or Lithuanians or Russians of the Hebrew faith seemed to be failing...read more

Product Description: In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of three million was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world—Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, assimilation—were tested...read more

Product Description: Beginning with an account of the social and political situation in Eastern Europe in 1944 , the author discusses the political changes in the area under the impact of internal struggles and the influence of the Great Powers. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of international politics, East European studies, history, politics, and economics...read more