From Shtetl to Socialism : Studies from Polin.
Until 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and secula...
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Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,
1993
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| Series: | Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Editors and Advisers; Acknowledgements; List of Maps; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Pre-Partition Poland (to 1795); 1. The Reconstruction of Pre-Ashkenazic Jewish Settlements in the Slavic Lands in the Light of Linguistic; 2. Some Basic Characteristics of the Jewish Experience in Poland; 3. Images of the Jew in the Polish Commonwealth; 4. A Minority views the Majority: Jewish Attitudes towards the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Interaction with Poles; 5. The Changes in the Attitude of Polish Society toward the Jews in the Eighteenth Century.
- 6. A Mobile Class. The Subjective Element in the Social Perception of Jews: The Example of Eighteenth-Century PolandPart II: The Nineteenth Century; 7. The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1861; 8. The Jewish Community in the Political Life of Łódź in the Years 1865-1914; 9. Aspects of the History of Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre; 10. Non-Jews and Gentile Society in East European Hebrew and Yiddish Literature 1856-1914; 11. Trends in the Literary Perception of Jews in Modern Polish Fiction.
- 12. Eros and Enlightenment: Love against Marriage in the East European Jewish Enlightenment13. Gender Differentiation and Education of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe; 14. Polish Synagogues in the Nineteenth Century; Part III: Between the Two World Wars; 15. Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Poland; 16. Some Methodological Problems of the Study of Jewish History in Poland between the Two World Wars; 17. Lucien Wolf and the Making of Poland: Paris, 1919; 18. Aspects of Jewish Self-Government in Łódź, 1914-1939; 19. The Image of the Shtetl in Polish Literature.
- 20. The Polish Jewish Daily Press21. From 'Numerus Clausus' to 'Numerus Nullus'; Part IV: The Second World War; 22. Jews and Poles under Soviet Occupation (1939-1941) Conflicting Interests; 23. The Western Allies and the Holocaust; 24. The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women's Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945; Part V: After 1945; 25. The Contexts of the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II; 26. Is there a Jewish School of Polish Literature?; 27. A Voice from the Diaspora: Julian Stryjkowski.
- 28. Poles and Poland in I.B. Singer's FictionNotes on Contributors; Chronological Table; Maps; Glossary; Index.
