The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City

The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is a 2009 book by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak. It was first published in Polish in 2001 as Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście. The book focuses on the Warsaw Ghetto.[1][2][3][4]

First edition (Polish, publ. IFiS PAN)

It focuses on the Warsaw Ghetto and its almost four-year history. According to a review in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, the work is "a unique and detailed monograph that gives the reader an insight into the daily life of Jewish inhabitants of the closed district". At 800-pages, the book details "the institutional structure of the ghetto, its relations with the Nazi government, important social institutions, and the economic and community life of the ghetto population," amounting almost to an encyclopedia.[5] A review by the Jewish Book Council finds The Warsaw Ghetto to be an "encyclopedic and impressive work" that does not make for an easy reading, but provides a rich and comprehensive portrayal of the life and fate of the ghetto community.[6] Michael Marrus described it as "a stunning work, one of the most important books on the history of the Nazi Holocaust".[7]

References
  1. Stone, Dan (November 2011). "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City". Journal of Genocide Research. 13 (4): 526–527. doi:10.1080/14623528.2011.637447. ISSN 1462-3528.
  2. Dean, M. (2011-09-01). "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City". German History. 29 (3): 538–539. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghr027. ISSN 0266-3554.
  3. Cole, Tim (June 2010). "Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak . The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City . Translated by Emma Harris . New Haven : Yale University Press . 2009 . Pp. xxix, 906. $75.00". The American Historical Review. 115 (3): 808–810. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.808. ISSN 0002-8762.
  4. Wróbel, Piotr (2010). "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City. By Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak. Trans. Emma Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xxix, 906 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Glossary. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $75.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 69 (3): 744–745. doi:10.1017/S0037677900012328. ISSN 0037-6779.
  5. Adrian Wójcik: "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City (review)", Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 30, Number 3, Spring 2012, pp. 176-178
  6. Michael N. Dobkowski: "The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City. Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak", Jewish Book Council
  7. Marrus, Michael R. (28 August 2009). "Review: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 14 June 2019.
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