Jeffrey Shandler, ed Awakening Live...

Jeffrey Shandler, ed Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. Intro. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Marcus Moseley and Michael Stanislawski. just discovered Haven: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yale UP 2002 496 pp ISBN 0-300-09277-6 $3500

A collection of personal documents as sociological material was first useed in a classic published in 1918-1920 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, from Florian Znaniecki and William I. Thomas. Later, in the 1930 YIVO scholars in Vilna held competitions for autobiographies, aimed at