Taschen Luach [pocket-calendar for the Hebrew Year 5723 (1962-63)]. Edited by P. Solitan. Text in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish

(POLAND)

Vaad ha-Kehiloth Ha-Kedoshoth

Warsaw

1962

24 photographs and illustrations of celebrated pre-war rabbinic, Chassidic and lay communal leaders of Polish Jewry, as well as tombstones, synagogue buildings, memorials, etc

Includes prayers, laws and customs, the times for the onset of Sabbath in cities throughout Poland, as well as a list of contact details for 22 Polish synagogues. Quite unusual to see a clearly - and exclusively - religious ("heimish") publication emanating from a society that was deeply committed to Communist ideology and that quashed any expression of Jewish feeling that did not conform to a rigid view of social expression