I Rest My Case

By: Verstandig, Mark

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Paperback | 4 July 2025 | Edition Number 2

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Mark Verstandig's epic of Eastern European Jewry is part-autobiography, part-Holocaust literature, part-sociological analysis-an outstanding achievement.

Mark Verstandig's compelling epic spans pre-Holocaust Jewish culture in Eastern Europe and its post-war reformation in Australia.

His personal story interweaves the vast forces of politics and history with intimate details of the shtetl-from the pre-war intricacies of Galician society and the textures of a traditional Jewish religious education, to the agonizing contradictions of Polish-Jewish relations and the complexities of post-war Jewish politics.

His account of the displaced persons camps where 'transit Jews' awaited their chance to emigrate is a significant contribution to a little-known aspect of post-war history.

With his gift for observation and his acute powers of analysis, Mark Verstandig has achieved the rare feat of telling the story of his people through its own history. Part autobiography, part Holocaust literature, part sociological analysis, I Rest My Case is a fine achievement.

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Maps of Poland	p. xxi
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Antecedents	p. 1
My father, the shtadlan	p. 9
The Depression years	p. 16
A cheder education	p. 26
The Mielec gymnasium	p. 37
Jewish student life in Cracow	p. 44
A small-town legal practice	p. 64
Inter-war Poland	p. 78
Flight to the east	p. 93
On the Soviet side	p. 100
False security	p. 109
Hazards of legal practice	p. 121
The Mielec Aktion	p. 133
Escape to Polaniec	p. 142
The net tightens	p. 151
On the run	p. 159
We go into hiding	p. 171
Partisan murders	p. 180
The Russians arrive	p. 187
August 1944	p. 194
Back at work	p. 203
Restitution and retribution	p. 212
Kielce: the breaking-point	p. 223
DPs in Germany	p. 239
The Polish inheritance	p. 251
The German black market	p. 258
The rag trade	p. 268
Postscript: our lucky country	p. 278
Glossary	p. 289
Index	p. 294
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