About the Author

Celia S. Heller is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Reviews

Wherever possible, we read the words of individuals; they speak out in diaries and letters, newspapers, through the pictures, often snapshots, of their lives between 1918 and 1939. Professor Heller seeks to bridge the gap between the mythologized and sentimentalized past and . . . actual experience of Polish Jewish life.--Robert Kirsch "Los Angeles Times"