Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland - Jaff Schatz - Hardcover

Revolutionaries and rebels, shoemakers and tailors, refugees, soldiers, intellectuals, and apparatchiks. They were the extraordinary generation of Polish-Jewish Communists--"the last true Communists," as some of them say today. With pathos and deeply informed insight, Jaff Schatz relates the life story of the Jews who joined the Polish Communist Party in the late 1920s and early 1930s, only to become its victims thirty years later. Schatz draws on archival research and interviews with forty-three surviving members of this generation that gave up everything but their dream of a new world order. He frames the personal drama of their rise and fall with important questions about the interaction of biography and history, showing how the lives ofThe Generationuniquely concentrate the recent history of East-Central Europe.Schatz, Jaff is the author of 'Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland - Jaff Schatz - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780520071360 and ISBN 0520071360.