Thoughts of a Polish Jew

<p><b><i>To Kasieńka from Grandpa</i> is a document of a personal and family memory authored by Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki (1890‒1958) in 1944/45. This memoir which was written in Polish and translated to English for the family circulation alone now becomes a public asset. </b></p><p>Lilien invites his new-born granddaughter to encounter her family generations of Polish Jewry: merchants lease-holders bankers industrialists politicians communal leaders army officers scholars physicians artists and art collectors. They dwell in a broad Jewish and Christian world integrated into the national life of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the Habsburg Empire and the Second Polish Republic. The reader is encouraged to enjoy reminiscences of this worthy life and bitter choices that challenged Polish-particularly Galician—Jewry in the twentieth century.</p>