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Jews in early modern Poland

Gershon David Hundert 1997 © Liverpool University Press
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  • Polin
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  • 9781909821613 (ebook)
  • 9781874774310 (paper)
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  • Jewish Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Towards a Polish-Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward (KRZYSZTOF ŚLIWIŃSKI Polish Ambassador to the Jewish Diaspora, page xvii)
  • Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place Names (page xxvii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xxix)
  • Introduction (GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT, page xxxi)
  • PART I: JEWS IN EARLY MODERN POLAND
    • Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland (JACOB GOLDBERG, page 3)
    • 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim (CHAVA WEISSLER, page 40)
    • The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought (ELIMELECH WESTREICH, page 66)
    • The Ashkenazi Élite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book (ELCHANAN REINER, page 85)
    • The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500-1800 (ZENON GULDON and JACEK WIJACZKA, page 99)
    • Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwoździec-Chodorów Group of Wooden Synagogues (THOMAS C. HUBKA, page 141)
    • In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivḥei haBesht (MOSHE ROSMAN, page 183)
    • Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews (DANIEL STONE, page 200)
  • PART II: NEW VIEWS
    • Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations (PAUL COATES, page 221)
    • 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter (Gertrud Pickhan, page 247)
    • Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations (CHONE SHMERUK, page 273)
    • On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland (ISRAEL M. TA-SHMA, page 287)
  • PART III: REVIEWS
    • REVIEW ESSAYS
    • On Eisenbach on Emancipation (TOMASZ GĄSOWSKI, page 321)
    • A Reply to Tomasz Gąsowski (ARTUR EISENBACH, page 326)
    • Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer (CHONE SHMERUK, page 333)
    • On Auschwitz (NECHAMA TEC, page 339)
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • Israel Bartal, Rachel Elior, and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Tsadikim ve'anshei ma'aseh: Meḥkarim beḥasidut Polin (SETH BRODY, page 344)
    • S. Bronsztejn, Z dziejów ludności żydowskiej na Dolnym Śląsku po II wojnie światowej (DAVID ENGEL, page 347)
    • Abraham David (ed.), A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, c. 1615 (JOSEPH M. DAVIS, page 350)
    • Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky (eds.), Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-1946 (OREST SUBTELNY, page 351)
    • Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780-1870 (MARSHA ROZENBLIT, page 353)
    • Barbara Engelking, Na łące popiołow: Ocaleni z Holocaustu (SHMUEL KRAKOWSKI, page 355)
    • Barbara Engelking, Zagłada i pamięć (TECIA WERBOWSKI, page 358)
    • Peter Faessler, Thomas Held, and Dirk Sawitzki (eds.), Lemberg-Lwow-Lviv: Eine Stadt im Schnittpunkt europäischer Kulturen (PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI, page 360)
    • Darrel J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia? (ELLEN M. UMANSKY, page 362)
    • P. Fijałkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródłowych XI-XVIII wieku (JUDITH KALIK, page 364)
    • David E. Fishman, Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov (ELI LEDERHENDLER, page 367)
    • Joseph Held (ed.), The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (IRINA LIVEZEANU, page 369)
    • Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 370)
    • Edward Kossoy and Abraham Ohry, The Feldshers: Medical, Sociological, and Historical Aspects of Practitioners of Medicine with below University Level Education (LISA EPSTEIN, page 372)
    • Mark Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-1919 (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 374)
    • Steven M. Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (PAULA E. HYMAN, page 377)
    • Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (PHILIP LONGWORTH, page 379)
    • Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim (DANIEL STONE, page 381)
    • Clare Moore (ed.), The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art (MARC MICHAEL EPSTEIN, page 383)
    • Gedalyah Nigal, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism (SHAUL MAGID, page 386)
    • Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood (MAURICE FRIEDBERG, page 388)
    • Eugenia Prokóp-Janiec, Międzywojenna literatura polsko-żydowska jako zjawisko kulturowe i artystyczne (JOLANTA KISLER-GOLDSTEIN, page 391)
    • Joel Raba, Bein zikaron lehakheḥashah: Gezerot taḥ vetat bereshimot benei hazeman ubere'i haketivah hahistorit (EDWARD FRAM, page 396)
    • Marek Rostworowski (ed.), Żydzi w Polsce: Obraz i słowo (EZRA MENDELSOHN, page 398)
    • Jean W. Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (HENRIK BIRNBAUM, page 402)
    • Jerzy Topolski, Polska w czasach nowożytnych: Od środkowoeuropejskiej potęgi do utraty niepodłegłości, 1501-1795 (JACOB GOLDBERG, page 405)
    • Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government (ANDRZEJ CHOJNOWSKI, page 408)
    • E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust (MICHAEL BERENBAUM, page 411)
    • Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism (MICHAEL BROWN, page 412)
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES, 1994 (authorname, page 415)
  • Notes on the Contributors (page 435)
  • Glossary (page 437)
  • Index (page 441)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JFGO 47.3 (1999): 447-449 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41050436
SHFR 17.4 (Summer 1999): 138-140 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/v017/17.4.blejwas.html
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