Merchants and Shopkeepers of Miedzyrzec Podlaski as I Remember them (Reconstructed from Bits of Memory) Cover Image
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Kupcy i sklepikarze z Międzyrzeca Podlaskiego. Takimi ich zapamiętałam (odtworzone z klisz pamięci)
Merchants and Shopkeepers of Miedzyrzec Podlaski as I Remember them (Reconstructed from Bits of Memory)

Author(s): Zofia Borzymińska
Subject(s): History
Published by: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny
Keywords: Międzyrzec Podlaski; 1930s; shtetl; small town living; Jewish commerce

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to archive documents edited by Sławomir Mańko, published in Kwartalnik Historii Żydów in 2005 (No. 4/216). The terse information contained in the Report of the Town Sanitary Commission (from 1938) is enlivened by details concerning traders, shopkeepers and their families, and life in Miedzyrzec Podlaski in the inter-war period in general. These details, kept over many decades in the memory of the town’s inhabitant, made it possible to recreate the picture of life in a small township, the coexistence of the Christians and the Jews, and also to revive the memory of some of its Jewish inhabitants. The article helps to broaden the knowledge of Polish-Jewish coexistence in the years preceding World War II.

  • Issue Year: 221/2007
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 77-93
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish