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Focusing on Jewish religious life, 1500-1900
Antony Polonsky
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Frontmatter
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Note on Place-Names (page xv)
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Note on Transliteration (page xvi)
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PART I: JEWISH RELIGIOUS LIFE, 1500-1900
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Introduction (ANTONY POLONSKY, page 3)
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Printing the Talmud in Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (KRZYSZTOF PILARCZYK, page 59)
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Isaac of Troki's Studies of Rabbinic Literature (STEFAN SCHREINER, page 65)
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Polish Attitudes towards Jewish Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century (JUDITH KALIK, page 77)
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Sixteenth-Century Accounts of Purim Festivities (HANNA WĘGRZYNEK, page 87)
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Jewish Popular Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century (GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT, page 93)
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The Struggle over Images in the Propaganda of the Frankist Movement (HARRIS LENOWITZ, page 105)
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The Non-Christian Frankists (JAN DOKTÓR, page 131)
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Rabbi Jonathan Eibescheutz's Attitude towards the Frankists (SID Z. LEIMAN, page 145)
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The Influence of Frankism on Polish Culture (MICHAŁ GALAS, page 153)
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Tsadik and Ba'al Shem in East European Hasidism (KARL E. GRÖZINGER, page 159)
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Holy Men in their Infancy: The Childhood of Tsadikim in Hasidic Legends (SUZANNE GALLEY, page 169)
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One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire (DAVID ASSAF, page 187)
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How Far was Krochmal Influenced by the Gaon Sherira ben Hanina in his Description of the Development of Oral Torah? (MARGARETE SCHLÜTER, page 203)
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The Messiah Son of Joseph according to Rabbi Zaddok Hacohen (ROLAND GOETSCHEL, page 213)
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Primordial Chaos and Creation in Gur Hasidism: The Sabbath that Preceded Creation (YORAM JACOBSON, page 221)
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PART II: NEW VIEWS
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'Ahavat yehonatan': A Poem by Judah Leo Landau (VERONICA BELLING, page 243)
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Jakub Becal: King Jan III Sobieski's Jewish Factor (ADAM KAŹMIERCZYK, page 249)
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The Shtadlan of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Noble Advocate or Unbridled Opportunist? (SCOTT URY, page 267)
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Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe (ELIYANA R. ADLER, page 301)
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The Society for the Advancement of Trade, Industry, and Crafts (SZYMON RUDNICKI, page 311)
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Strangers in their Own Land: Polish Jews from Lublin to Kielce (DANIEL BLATMAN, page 335)
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Jewish Writers in Polish Literature (EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC, page 359)
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Auschwitz: Site of Memories (SŁAWOMIR KAPRALSKI, page 383)
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My Jedwabne (MARTA KURKOWSKA-BUDZAN, page 401)
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PART III: REVIEWS
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REVIEW ESSAYS
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Report of the Vatican Documents on the Second World War (page 411)
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The Vatican Documents and the Holocaust: A Personal Report (ROBERT S. WISTRICH, page 413)
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Yaffa Eliach's Eishyshok: Two Views (page 445)
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Holocaust Survivors in Jadwiga Maurer's Short Stories (JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ CLARK, page 469)
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Polish Translations of Yiddish Literature Published in Wrocław (JERZY TOMASZEWSKI, page 475)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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David Patterson, The Hebrew Novel in Czarist Russia (ALICE NAKHIMOVSKY, page 479)
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Shmuel A. Arthur Cygielman, Jewish Autonomy in Poland and Lithuania until 1648 (GARY FITELBERG, page 480)
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The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, The Jews of Poland (GWIDO ZLATKES, page 481)
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Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (AMIR WEINER, page 484)
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Henryk Hoffman, Z Drohobycza do Ziemi Obiecanej (DORA KACNELSON, page 486)
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Hirsz Abramowicz, Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II (MOTTI ZALKIN, page 490)
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Robert Weinberg, Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928-1996 (CHIZUKO TAKAO, page 492)
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Anna Landau-Czajka, W jednym stali domu...Koncepcje rozwiązania kwestii żydowskiej w publicystyce polskiej lat 1933-1939 (JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, page 494)
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Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraoridinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, with extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld (GARY FITELBERG, page 497)
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Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 (GWIDO ZLATKES, page 499)
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Wiktoria Śliwowska (ed.), The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak (JOSHUA D. ZIMMERMAN, page 503)
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Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust (SABINE VON MERING, page 506)
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Ann Charney, Dobryd (ANNA PETROV BUMBLE, page 509)
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APPRECIATIONS AND OBITUARIES
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Chone Shmeruk: The Man and his Work (ISRAEL BARTAL, page 513)
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The Scholarly Activities of Chone Shmeruk in Poland (JÓZEF A. GIEROWSKI, page 515)
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Jan Karski (1914-2000) (STANISLAUS A. BLEJWAS, page 519)
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Moshe Mishkinsky (1917-1998) (JOSHUA D. ZIMMERMAN, page 525)
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Notes on the Contributors (page 527)
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Glossary (page 533)
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Index (page 539)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JFGO | 54.1 (2006): 123-124 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41051609 |
JQR | 97.2 (Spring 2007): 289-303 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25470207 |
Citable Link
Published: 2002
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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