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The shtetl: myth and reality
Antony Polonsky-
Frontmatter
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Note on Place Names (page xv)
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Note on Transliteration (page xvi)
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List of Abbreviations (page xvii)
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PART I: THE SHTETL: MYTH AND REALITY
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Introduction. The Shtetl: Myth and Reality (ANTONY POLONSKY, page 3)
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The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish-Jewish Integration in the Eighteenth Century (ADAM TELLER, page 25)
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Inter-Religious Contacts in the Shtetl: Proposals for Future Research (MICHAŁ GALAS, page 41)
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The Hasidic Conquest of Small-Town Central Poland, 1754-1818 (GLENN DYNNER, page 51)
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The Drama of Berdichev: Levi Yitshak and his Town (YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN, page 83)
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Polish Shtetls under Russian Rule, 1772-1914 (JOHN KLIER, page 97)
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How Jewish Was the Shtetl? (BEN-CION PINCHUK, page 109)
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The Changing Shtetl in the Kingdom of Poland during the First World War (KONRAD ZIELIŃSKI, page 119)
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The Shtetl: Cultural Evolution in Small Jewish Towns (ALINA CAŁA, page 133)
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Small Towns in Inter-War Poland (REGINA RENZ, page 143)
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Jewish Patrons and Polish Clients: Patronage in a Small Galician Town (ROSA LEHMANN, page 153)
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Maintaining Borders, Crossing Borders: Social Relationships in the Shtetl (ANNAMARIA ORLA-BUKOWSKA, page 171)
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The Soviet Shtetl in the 1920s (GENNADY ESTRAIKH, page 197)
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Shtetl and Shtot in Yiddish Haskalah Drama (JOEL BERKOWITZ, page 213)
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Kazimierz on the Vistula: Polish Literary Portrayals of the Shtetl (EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC, page 233)
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Imagining the Image: Interpretations of the Shtetl in Yiddish Literary Criticism (MIKHAIL KRUTIKOV, page 243)
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Shtetl Codes: Fantasy in the Fiction of Asch, Schulz, and I.B. Singer (KATARZYNA WIĘCŁAWSKA, page 259)
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Returning to the Shtetl: Differing Perceptions (SHIMON REDLICH, page 267)
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PART II: NEW VIEWS
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A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda's Polish Question (BRIAN HOROWITZ, page 279)
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Like a Voice Crying in the Wilderness: The Correspondence of Wolf Lewkowicz (MIROSŁAW WÓJCIK, page 299)
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Jewish Prisoner Labour in Warsaw After the Ghetto Uprising, 1943-1944 (GABRIEL N. FINDER, page 325)
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The Gęsiówka Story: A Little-Known Page of Jewish Resistance (EDWARD KOSSOY, page 353)
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PART III: DOCUMENTS
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Gomułka Writes to Stalin in 1948 (LECH W. GŁUCHOWSKI, page 365)
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PART IV: THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF EVENTS IN PRZYTYK: A DEBATE
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If Not a Pogrom, Then What? (JOLANTA ŻYNDUL, page 385)
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Pogrom? The Polish-Jewish Incidents in Przytyk, 9 March 1936 (PIOTR GONTARCZYK, page 392)
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It Was No Ordinary Fight (JOLANTA ŻYNDUL, page 397)
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Life and History (RYSZARD FENIGSEN, page 400)
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Letter from Ryszard Fenigsen (page 401)
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Przytyk and the Market Stall (KSAWERY PRUSZYŃSKI, page 404)
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PART V: REVIEWS
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Chone Shmeruk, Hakeriyah lenavi: meḥkerei historiyah vesifrut, edited by Israel Bartal; Chone Shmeruk, Ayarot ukerakhim: perakim beyetsirato shel shalom aleikhem, edited by Chava Turniansky (DAVID ASSAF, page 413)
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Anna Michałowska, Między demokracją a oligarchią: Władze gmin żydowskich w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu (MAGDALENA TETER, page 419)
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Magdalena Sitarz, Yiddish and Polish Proverbs: Contrastive Analysis Against Cultural Background (HENRYK DUDA, page 422)
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Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin (eds.), New Perspectives on the Haskalah (VERENA DOHRN, page 427)
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Brian Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (SCOTT URY, page 429)
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Irena Janicka-Świderska, Jerzy Jarniewicz, and Adam Sumera (eds.), Jewish Themes in English and Polish Culture (MAREK PARYŻ, page 432)
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Nancy L. Green (ed.), Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora (KONRAD ZIELIŃSKI, page 434)
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Gertrud Pickhan, 'Gegen den Strom'. Der Allgemeine Jüdische Arbeiterbund 'Bund' in Polen, 1918-1939 (JACK JACOBS, page 438)
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Anna Cichopek, Pogrom Żydów w Krakowie, II sierpnia 1945 r. (NATALIA ALEKSIUN, page 440)
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Michał Horoszewicz, 'Przez dwa millenia do rzymskiej synagogi': Szkice o ewolucji postawy Kościoła katolickiego wobec Żydów i judaizmu (GRZEGORZ IGNATOWSKI, page 448)
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OBITUARIES
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Rafael Scharf (1914-2003) (ANTONY POLONSKY, page 453)
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Eugenia Shrut (1925-2003) (RYSZARD FENIGSEN, page 460)
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George Szabad (1917-2002) (ANTONY POLONSKY, page 462)
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Notes on the Contributors (page 465)
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Glossary (page 471)
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Index (page 475)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SR | 65.3 (Autumn 2006): 576-577 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4148674 |
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- 9781874774754 (hardcover)
- 9781874774761 (paper)
- 9781909821682 (ebook)