Synopses & Reviews
The author, a prominent figure in Polish-Jewish relations, has acted as a 'bridge-builder' between the two cultures over the last half century. This is a collection of his essays on Poland and reflections on his relationship with this mother country. Regret for the loss of the multi-faceted world of Polish Jewry and reflections on why the history of the 'world's two saddest nations' diverged so drastically and led to so much misunderstanding, bitterness and hatred are the two themes of this volume.
This is the sad and elegiac book whose stories resonate with Scharf's continuing feeling of loss, fifty years later. It is not a book about the Holocaust, but is nevertheless preoccupied with the consequences of the mass murder of the Jews of Poland and Europe and the boundless horror of those events which have no analogy in history.