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In his book From the Shtetl to the Shtot Nathan Peck tells his life story, combined by many stories and anecdotes, starting in Poland in 1925 and continuing in South Africa, a short period in Israel, and finally headed to the USA.
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Los Angeles,2005
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145 pages, hardcover, oblong 31cm X 25cm, very good condition. Very rare book.
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I was born in 1925 in Bransk, Poland. The closest major city was Bialystok, which had a large Jewish population, and was known in those days as the `Jerusalem of Poland.`
Bialystok was a highly organized Jewish community with a fantastic system of Hebrew and Yiddish schools and many institutions, charitable, educational, and others. This is worth noting at this point because the small villages like Bransk tended to duplicate these institutions on a smaller scale. This was certainly true of Bransk during the period when we lived there. Unfortunately though there would, within sixty-five years of my birth, be only one Jewish citizen left in Bialystok, and I would come to know him quite well, as he was to be our guide when I returned to Poland for a visit in 1989.
(Nathan Peck: From the Shtetl to the Shtot, page 13)
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