Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory

preface and acknowledgments, Introduction: I. What is a Landsmanshaft? ; Part 1. The Work of the Past: II. Children of the Country; III. From the Pale to the City of Light; IV. Maybe There Is a God; V. Getting By. Part 2. Pieces of the Mirror: VI. Reports of the War in Debanon; VII. Dejeuner Solennel; VIII. High Culture and Folklore; IX. Leaders and Intellectuals; X. Mourning; XI. Children and Other Strangers; Postscript: The Landslayt and the End of the Country; references, index. Modern Jewish Experience series. "This book chronicles the stubborn persistence of that community and its members efforts to construct a collective memory of their generation. It focuses on the immigrant societies known as landsmanshaftn and on other immigrand institutions that help keep Yiddish culture alive and involve the immigrants in the politics of the Jewish and wider worlds." from the jacket flap.