Creator Bio
Yehoshua Perle
1888–1943
Yehoshua Perle was a popular Yiddish-language writer whose novels portrayed all classes of Jewish society in interwar Poland. While never a favorite of literary critics, Perle wrote works that were beloved by the Yiddish-speaking public and therefore reached a wide audience. While imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, Perle produced an important diary of events entitled Khurbn Varshe that details, among other events, the collaboration of Jews with the Nazis and their allies. He was killed in Auschwitz.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life
The question arises: How did my mother, who, with her first husband, the feldsher, resided in spacious rooms, with brass handles on the doors, come to be with Father, a village Jew who…
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4580
A round number. At first glance it looks silly and seems to have no specific meaning. A detached number such as this can be likened to those gray people who go through life alone and die without…