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Focusing on aspects and experiences of religion

Antony Polonsky
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place Names (page xv)
  • Introduction (ANTONY POLONSKY, page xvii)
  • PART I: ON RELIGION: ASPECTS AND EXPERIENCES
    • Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-War Poland (SHAUL STAMPFER, page 3)
    • Tobacco and the Hasidism (LOUIS JACOBS, page 25)
    • 'A Thread of Blue': Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyń and his Search for Continuity in Response to Modernity (SHAUL MAGID, page 31)
    • The Tarler rebbe of Łódź and his Medical Practice: Towards a History of Hasidic Life in Pre-First World War Poland (IRA ROBINSON, page 53)
    • Aaron Menahem Mendel Guterman, the rebbe of Radzymin (HARRY RABINOWICZ, page 62)
    • A Pilgrimage from Bobowa to Bobowa (ADAM BARTOSZ, page 66)
    • On the Brink of Disaster: Hillel Zeitlin's Struggle for Jewish Survival in Poland (SHRAGA BAR SELLA, page 77)
    • Ala from the Primer (ALINA MARGOLIS-EDELMAN, page 94)
    • The Congregation of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw: Its Changing Social Composition and Ideological Affiliations (ALEXANDER GUTERMAN, page 112)
    • The Progressive Synagogue in Lwów (JULIAN J. BUSSGANG, page 127)
    • The Synagogues of Łódź (KRZYSZTOF STEFAŃSKI, page 154)
  • PART II: NEW VIEWS
    • Conspiracy Theories and the Reception of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Poland (JANUSZ TAZBIR, page 171)
    • Polish Influences on British Policy Regarding Jewish Rescue Efforts in Poland 1939-1945 (BERNARD WASSERSTEIN, page 183)
    • The Concerns of an Immigrant Rabbi: The Life and Sermons of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz (KIMMY CAPLAN, page 192)
    • Trunk's Poyln: Its Place in Jewish Polish History (ANNA CLARKE, page 216)
    • Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Inter-War Poland as Reflected in Some Ukranian Publications (SHIMON REDLICH, page 232)
    • Jewish Martyrdom in the Works of Adolf Rudnicki (JÓZEF WRÓBEL, page 247)
    • The Jewish Question in Poland: Views Expressed in the Catholic Press between the Two World Wars (ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA, page 263)
  • PART III: REVIEWS
    • REVIEW ESSAYS
    • History, Experience, and Democracy. István Bibó Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944-Fifty Years Later (ROBERT BRAUN, page 281)
    • The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust (MICHAEL BURLEIGH, page 296)
    • Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 312)
    • A New Account of the 'March Events' (JÓZEF LEWANDOWSKI, page 319)
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • Andrzej Żbikowski, Żydzi krakowscy i ich gmina w latach 1869-1919 (HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITT, page 327)
    • Mojżesz Schorr i jego listy do Ludwika Gumplowicza, ed. Rafał Żebrowski (HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITT, page 331)
    • Świat pod kontrolą: Wybór materiałów z archiwum cenzury rosyjskiej w Warszawie, ed. Maria Prussak (CHONE SHMERUK, page 334)
    • Andrzej Jezierski (ed.), Historia Polski w liczbach: Ludność, terytorium (JAKUB BASISTA, page 337)
    • Rainer Erb (ed.), Die Legende vom Ritualmord: Zur Geschichte der Blutbeschuldigung gegen Juden (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 338)
    • Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa (SANDER L. GILMAN, page 340)
    • Regina Renz, Społeczeństwo małomiasteczkowe w województwie kieleckim 1918-1939 Krzysztof Urbański, Kieleccy Żydzi (SAMUEL D. KASSOW, page 345)
    • Christopher Clark, The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728-1941 (ALAN LEVENSON, page 348)
    • Jacek J. Jadacki and Barbara Markiewicz (eds.), A Mądrości zło nie przemoże (JAKUB BASISTA, page 350)
    • Death Books from Auschwitz: Remnants, ed. Jerzy Dębski et al. (JOLANTA AMBROSIEWICZ-JACOBS, page 351)
    • Norman Salsitz, as told to Richard Skolnik, A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Remembering Kolbuszowa (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 354)
    • Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (JACK NUSAN PORTER, page 355)
    • Barbara and Leszek Amatys and Wiesław Stradomski, Historia filmu polskiego, ii (NATAN GROSS, page 358)
    • Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (FRANKLIN LITTEL, page 360)
    • Felicja Karay, Death Comes in Yellow: Skarżysko-Kamienna Slave Labour Camp (FRANK BIALYSTOK, page 361)
    • Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast (GWIDO ZLATKES, page 365)
    • Irena Kowalska and Ida Merżan, Rottenbergowie znad Buga (ANNA CLARKE, page 371)
    • Fanny Sołomian, Getto i gwiazdy; Pamiętnik Marii Koper, ed. Henryk Grynberg; Natan Gross, Poeci i Szoa (JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ-CLARK, page 375)
    • Arnost Lustig, Children of the Holocaust (MICHAEL GREENSTEIN, page 378)
  • OBITUARY
    • Julian Strykjkowski (1905-1996) (MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA, page 381)
  • NOTES
    • The Third Competition of Scholarly Works on Polish Jewish and Israel Themes (ALINA CAŁA, page 385)
  • A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH JEWISH STUDIES, 1995 (page 391)
  • Notes on the Contributors (page 413)
  • Glossary (page 418)
  • Index (page 423)
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Published: 1998
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
ISBN(s)
  • 9781874774051 (hardcover)
  • 9781909821620 (ebook)
  • 9781874774341 (paper)
Series
  • Polin
Subject
  • Jewish Studies
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