Book by Niezabitonska, M. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Offering a rare glimpse of Polish-Jewish daily life, family and religious celebrations, cultural and community events, Niezabitowska, a Polish journalist, tries to "overcome my own ignorance as well as my often unconscious presuppositions and stereotypes," and for the most part succeeds in penetrating a foreign world. The tragedy of Polish Jewrythe population decreased from the three and a half million of preWorld War II to 5000, the majority elderly, in 1980is made painfully palpable through their reminiscences recorded here and through Tomaszewski's color photographs: of a tailor who laments his daughter's interfaith marriage, a brushmaker who has been baptized yet leads the synagogue prayers, the first Warsaw child to celebrate a bar mitzvah in 30 years. A community leader, without self-pity, tells American tourists to "bring us youth, joy, life . . . That is what we really miss." First serial to National Geographic; B'nai B'rith Jewish Book Club main selection; author tour. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Remnants is a sad, touching look at the last of Poland's long-suffering Jewish minority. The story of the group, now numbering less than 5000 mostly old and tortured souls, is sympathetically captured by a young Polish couple in a series of short interviews and over 70 poignant photographs. Tragedy, of course, is the common denominator, and the experiences of those in Remnants is largely one of Holocaust, pogrom, degradation, and poverty. Their triumph, if any, has been in their ability to survive and to retain cherished fragments of their culture. This is an excellent word picture of the Jewish experience in Poland. Highly recommended to libraries with large Jewish studies collections. Joseph W. Constance, Jr., Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.