Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire. Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937 and, with his parents, narrowly escaped the Nazis in 1939, fleeing first to Switzerland and then to England

Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire. Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937 and, with his parents, narrowly escaped the Nazis in 1939, fleeing first to Switzerland and then to England. He grew up in London and graduated from London Hospital Medical College. After several years spent working and traveling in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, he joined the BBC, where he spent the next quarter of a century as a program producer and filmmaker.

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Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937.

The book ends by describing how the Yiddish way of life became one of the foundation stones of modern American, and therefore of world, culture. Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937. In London he trained as a dentist, and spent a decade working in Iran and Afghanistan. From there he travelled extensively in Asia and Africa before developing a career in broadcasting and journalism.

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Written by Paul Kriwaczek, Audiobook narrated by Robert Blumenfeld. The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Narrated by: George Guidall. He begins his chronicle in Jerusalem, with the destruction of the Jewish temple at the hands of the Romans in the year 70.

Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world.

Reading about the history of the Yiddish civilization has never been so engaging, uplifting, and pleasurable

Reading about the history of the Yiddish civilization has never been so engaging, uplifting, and pleasurable. One almost feels as if one is participating in this colorful and intriguing and European medieval landscape.

This book is a fascinating and energetic, but significantly flawed, effort to uncover and trace the roots and trunk of the Yiddish- speaking Jewish civilization that flourished for over 800 years in Central and Eastern Europe.

Yiddish Civilisation : The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation. By (author) Paul Kriwaczek.