Who Will Say Kaddish?: A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland by Larry Mayer National Jewish Book Award Winner LA Review of Books

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Who Will Say Kaddish?: A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland by Larry Mayer National Jewish Book Award Winner LA Review of BooksWho Will Say Kaddish? is an exploration of the fragile resurgence of Jewish life and identity in post Communist Poland. By the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to the second largest Jewish population in the world. By war's end, its Jews had been exterminated and their once vibrant culture all but destroyed. In this book Larry Mayer and Gary Gelb, themselves descendants of Polish Jews, explore reports that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern