Jews in Early Modern Poland: Polin: 10 1874774315, 9781874774310

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Editors and Advisers
Preface
Polin
Contents
Towards a Polish—Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward
Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place–Names
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Jews in Early Modern Poland
Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth–Century Poland
‘For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord’: The Tkhine for ‘Laying Wicks’ by Sarah bas Tovim
The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought
The Ashkenazi Élite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book
The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500—1800
Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwoździec–Chodorów Group of Wooden Synagogues
In Praise of the Ba’al Shem Tov: A User’s Guide to the Editions of Shivhei ha Besht
Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth–Century Polish Jews
Part II: New Views
Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema’s Portrayal of Polish—Jewish Relations
‘That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison’: The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter
Mayufes: A Window on Polish—Jewish Relations
On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland
Part III: Reviews
Review Essays
On Eisenbach on Emancipation
A Reply to Tomasz Gąsowski
Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer
On Auschwitz
Book Reviews
Israel Bartal, Rachel Elior, and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Tsadikim ve’anshei ma’aseh: Mehkarim behasidut Polin
S. Bronsztejn, Z dziejów ludności żydowskiej na Dolnym Śląsku po II wojnie światowej
Abraham David (ed.), A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, c.1615
Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky (eds.), Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939–1946
Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780—1870
Barbara Engelking, Na lące popiołów: Ocaleni z Holocaustu
Barbara Engelking, Zaglada i pamięć
Peter Faessler, Thomas Held, and Dirk Sawitzki (eds.), Lemberg—Lwow—Lviv: Eine Stadt im Schnittpunkt europäischer Kulturen
Darrel J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?
P. Fijalkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródlowych XI—XVIII wieku
David E. Fishman, Russia’s First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov
Joseph Held (ed.), The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom
Edward Kossoy and Abraham Ohry, The Feldshers: Medical, Sociological, and Historical Aspects of Practitioners of Medicine with below University Level Education
Mark Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914—1919
Steven M. Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770—1830
Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim: Materiały sesji naukowej w Warszawie, 15—16 Wrzesien 1992
Clare Moore (ed.), The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art
Gedalyah Nigal, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism
Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood
Eugenia Prokóp–Janiec, Międzywojenna literatura polsko-żydowska jako zjawisko kulturowe i artystyczne
Joel Raba, Bein zikaron lehakhehashah: Gezerot tah vetat bereshimot benei hazeman ubere’i haketivah hahistorit
Marek Rostworowski (ed.), Żydzi w Polsce: Obraz i slowo
Jean W. Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000—1500
Jerzy Topolski, Polska w czasach nowożytnych: Od środkowoeuropejskiej potęgi do utraty niepodleglości, 1501—1795
Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government
E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism
Bibliography of Polish—Jewish Studies 1994
Notes on the Contributors
Glossary
Index

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