Open Book Publishers<p>📢Out Now in OA: 'The Last Years of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jewry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewry</span></a>, Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33' by Yankev Leshchinsky, ed. by Robert Brym, trans. by Eli Jany and Robert Brym.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainian</span></a>-born <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/YankevLeshchinsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YankevLeshchinsky</span></a> (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EasternEuropean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasternEuropean</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and [...] “the father of Jewish demography,” <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Leshchinsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leshchinsky</span></a> published a series of insightful and moving essays in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jewry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewry</span></a> between 1927 and 1937.</p><p>Despite heightened interest in interwar <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> communities in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> in recent years, these essays have never been translated into English. 'The Last Years of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Jewry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewry</span></a>' helps to rectify this situation by translating some of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Leshchinsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leshchinsky</span></a>’s key essays. A thoughtful Introduction by Robert Brym provides the context of the author’s life and work.</p><p>Access this title for free or get a copy at <a href="https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0341" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openbookpublishers.com/books/1</span><span class="invisible">0.11647/obp.0341</span></a></p>