Yiddish culture in Poland after the Holocaust

Before 1939, Poland was the largest centre of Yiddish culture in the world. Out of 3,400,000 Jews who lived in Poland, about 3,000,000 used Yiddish on a daily basis. The Holocaust brought vast changes in Yiddish culture, and Jews who survived the war had to rebuild their culture. The 1944-49 period witnessed an intense revival in Jewish cultural life. However the possibility of emigration in 1956 was a blessing to many Jews, but was a curse for cultural activities