{"product_id":"from-the-ashes-the-sherwin-gluck-9780967254357","title":"From the Ashes - The Documents of a Jewish Family, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Ashes: Documents of a Jewish Family\u003c\/strong\u003e is a two-volume documentary history assembled from original records spanning nearly two centuries of Jewish family life, migration, persecution, destruction, survival, and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from the archives of the Glück, Schwartz, Klein, Moskovics, and related families of Polyán, Lelesz, and the surrounding region of historic Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the work presents hundreds of primary-source documents preserved across generations. Together, the \u003cstrong\u003etwo volumes\u003c\/strong\u003e comprise more than \u003cstrong\u003e750\u003c\/strong\u003e pages of records, photographs, translations, annotations, and historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003e19th- and early 20th-century census records\u003c\/strong\u003e from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Immigration and travel records\u003c\/strong\u003e, including railway and ship tickets, passenger manifests, arrival records, visa applications, and citizenship documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- U.S. draft registrations and military service records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Holocaust documentation\u003c\/strong\u003e, including deportation lists, prisoner records, forced-labor assignments, confiscation inventories, camp registrations, transfer records, and death records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Property deeds\u003c\/strong\u003e, cadastral records, contracts, transfers, and inheritance documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Postwar property rulings\u003c\/strong\u003e, guardianship appointments, restitution petitions, legal claims, and official decisions issued under changing political regimes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eVital records\u003c\/strong\u003e including: birth, marriage, death, and civil-registration records from Europe and America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Newspaper reports\u003c\/strong\u003e, communal records, family photographs, and other historical materials\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach document is accompanied by explanatory material identifying the people, places, institutions, and historical circumstances represented. Translations and cross-references connect records created in different languages and countries, allowing fragments scattered across family, governmental, military, municipal, genealogical, and Holocaust archives to be understood as parts of a single history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe documents trace the family from nineteenth-century Central Europe through immigration to the United States, the Holocaust, postwar reconstruction, restitution proceedings, and the preservation of family memory. They reveal how ordinary lives were recorded-and often controlled-by successive governments, courts, armies, institutions, and bureaucracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Ashes was edited and compiled by Sherwin Gluck, grandson of Holocaust survivors and custodian of the Gluck Family Papers, a family archive preserved as a Special Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion to \u003cem\u003ePrivate Good Luck, Pappus: The Saga of a Jewish Family, As I Remember...\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFixed in Silver\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrom the Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e completes an extensive family-based record of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously assembled and deeply personal, this documentary history demonstrates how seemingly impersonal records-a census entry, property transfer, prisoner card, visa application, or official ruling-can preserve the evidence of lives, relationships, communities, and a world that persecution sought to erase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherwin Gluck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0967254353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780967254357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tisza Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 11.00w x 1.19d","brand":"Sherwin Gluck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50779845427455,"sku":"9780967254357","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-the-ashes-the-sherwin-gluck-9780967254357","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}