Yehiel Yeshaia trunk(1887-1961) was a Yiddish essayist and writer. Piotr J. Wróbel holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History at the University of Toronto. Robert M. Shapiro is an associate professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College. Anna Clarke is a professor emeritus of Carleton University.

‘The editors of Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland have produced a volume both accessible and original in its approach … the value of the memoirs lie primarily in their portraits of the Jewish elite – of the grimy, sexual, foul-smelling realities of everyday life in the nineteenth century.’- Yedida Kanfer (Canadian Slavonic Papers) ‘Trunk’s evocative sketches of pre-war Poland throb with emotion and are redolent of the bygone epoch, destroyed by the Nazis.’- Sheldon Kirshner (Canadian Jewish News)

Yehiel Yeshaia trunk(1887-1961) was a Yiddish essayist and writer. Piotr J. Wróbel holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History at the University of Toronto. Robert M. Shapiro is an associate professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College. Anna Clarke is a professor emeritus of Carleton University.

‘The editors of Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland have produced a volume both accessible and original in its approach … the value of the memoirs lie primarily in their portraits of the Jewish elite – of the grimy, sexual, foul-smelling realities of everyday life in the nineteenth century.’- Yedida Kanfer (Canadian Slavonic Papers) ‘Trunk’s evocative sketches of pre-war Poland throb with emotion and are redolent of the bygone epoch, destroyed by the Nazis.’- Sheldon Kirshner (Canadian Jewish News)

Yehiel Yeshaia trunk(1887-1961) was a Yiddish essayist and writer. Piotr J. Wróbel holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History at the University of Toronto. Robert M. Shapiro is an associate professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College. Anna Clarke is a professor emeritus of Carleton University.

‘The editors of Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland have produced a volume both accessible and original in its approach … the value of the memoirs lie primarily in their portraits of the Jewish elite – of the grimy, sexual, foul-smelling realities of everyday life in the nineteenth century.’- Yedida Kanfer (Canadian Slavonic Papers) ‘Trunk’s evocative sketches of pre-war Poland throb with emotion and are redolent of the bygone epoch, destroyed by the Nazis.’- Sheldon Kirshner (Canadian Jewish News)