By Victor Erlich
Erlich inspires what it was once prefer to be a Bundist, the depth of Socialist lifestyles on the time, the pondering after the Nazi invasion of Poland-before the pact among Hitler and Stalin grew to become obvious. Figures comparable to Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendel Wilkie, Marc and Bella Chagall make appearances, in addition to the well-known truth seeker Tarski, flunking Erlich in math. all through, regardless of the darkness, even the horror, of a lot of what he describes, the writer keeps the beguiling tone and the nice and cozy demeanour of 1 who has reached the recent millennium with infrequent and hard-won perception into the human comedy of his time.
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Degree, but I have an inkling that it was a somewhat immature piece of writing. In 1939, I had occasion to return to Brzozowski, most notably to his attitude to Marxism, in a polemical article which took issue with the strictures of two radical intellectuals, M. Boruchowicz and Jerzy Borejsza. The former was to become known as an Israeli man of letters; the latter was slated to be one of postwar Poland’s leading ideologists. My “Brzozowski and Marxism” landed in a fairly high-level leftwing literary journal Sygnaly (Signals), based in Lwów and edited by the thoughtful and independent Karol Kuryluk.
The fact that Iza and I were getting hooked up was not lost either on our families or on mutual friends. The feisty Bundist lady lawyer, Mrs. ” Without false modesty, Iza’s father was right. Though she was five years my junior, she was in some ways more mature, more worldly, than I. It took her pluck and enterprise to bring me out. And bring me out she did. Through the academic year 1938 to 1939 we did an incredible amount of running around Warsaw together. We enjoyed each other’s company in the most disparate and scattered locales, from a “sophisticated” coffee shop to a grove at the city’s outskirts.
In matters sexual, I was unquestionably a later bloomer, held back as I was by inhibitions and residual shyness. Yet by 1937, I was ready for an emotional involvement. It was my good fortune to meet at that juncture a vivid, keen, and feisty young woman. Her name was Iza Sznejerson (Shneerson). Iza’s ancestry could be traced back to the charismatic founder of Hassidism, Zalmen Shneur. The famed Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Shneerson was a very distant relative. Iza’s father, a personable and thoughtful lawyer, was a second-generation secular Shneerson; he was drawn to the Bund, mainly, I believe, because of his high regard for Father.