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Symbiosis and ambivalence : Poles and Jews in a small Galician town / Rosa Lehmann.
Van Pelt Library DS135.P62 J29965 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehmann, Rosa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Poland--Jaśliska--History.
- Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Jaśliska.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- History.
- Jaśliska (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
- Jaśliska (Poland).
- Poland--Race relations.
- Poland--Jaśliska.
- Local Subjects:
- Poland--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Jew Legend 1
- The Tale of the Polish Jews
- The Jew Legend
- On 'traditional Polish anti-Semitism'
- Anti-Semitism in Poland: a structural or cultural problem?
- Structure versus culture
- Jews in Poland: their economic role
- Jews in Poland: the cultural implication
- An Ethnographic Case-Study Approach
- The case of Jasliska
- The ethnographic present
- Chapter 2 The Setting 21
- Feudal relations: the gentry, the Jews, and the peasant serfs
- Early Jewish settlement in Poland
- The Jewish arrendator
- Jasliska: portrait of a Polish episcopal town
- The foundation
- A multi-ethnic environment
- Jewish exclusion from Jasliska
- Modern times, or the decline of a small town
- Austrian colonisation of southeastern Poland
- Austrian enlightened policies and the Jews
- Chapter 3 Spheres of Interaction: Spatial Integration 41
- Patterns of settlement
- Sources on Jewish settlement
- A Jewish centre
- The Jews, the town, and trade
- Jewish merchants and Polish peasants
- Acquisition of land: the gossip about Jewish arson
- The rumour of Jewish arson
- On oral traditions and historical gossip
- Historical evidence
- Chapter 4 Spheres of Interaction: Economic Relations 59
- New times, old patterns
- Jewish entrepreneurship
- Jewish prosperity
- Economic dependence
- The Jewish swindler: the malevolent creditor
- The Jewish rescuer: the benevolent creditor
- The Jewish patron: the mighty employer
- Economic competition
- The Bank of Mercy: Christian money-lending
- The Agricultural Circle: Christian joint ventures
- Hostile dependency
- Chapter 5 Spheres of Interaction: The Social Boundary and the Image of the Jew 89
- Strangers at home: the mystical world of Poland's Jews in exile
- The rise of Hasidic reign in Galicia
- The Hasidic community in Jasliska
- Viewing the other: Jewish and Gentile reasoning
- When two worlds meet: cross-cultural contact and its limitations
- Evidence of social contact
- Hierarchies of social contact
- Polish images of the Jew
- Polish-Jewish relations and the image of the Jew
- Chapter 6 The Ethnic Boundary: The Case of the Converted Jewish Woman 114
- Felicja's story
- Early childhood
- The baptism
- After the baptism
- The Second World War
- The Jewish family
- Transgressing the ethnic boundary
- A social deviant
- The conversion
- An ethnic conflict
- Poles and Jews in present-day Jasliska
- Chapter 7 The Destruction of the Communities 138
- Hitler's era: German rule in southeastern Poland
- The General Government
- Jasliska under German occupation
- Polish resistance to German rule
- The destruction of a Jewish community
- Prelude
- The forecast
- The raid
- The deportation
- The selection
- The massacre
- Escape and rescue
- The dead and the guilty
- The destruction of a Polish community
- The aftermath of the German occupation
- The civil war: anarchy and policy
- Polish Texas
- Peoples' Poland or the reign of communism
- The post-communist era
- Chapter 8 Discussion: Physical Experience and Symbolic Representations 169
- The physical experience: Jewish patrons and Polish clients
- Jewish patrons and Polish clients: towards an alternative perspective
- Patron-client relations in Jasliska
- On Polish-Jewish coexistence
- Symbolic representations: Polish-Jewish relations and the image of the Jew
- The relationship between 'imagined' and 'real life' experience
- The transition from physical to symbolic experience
- The impact of the Shoah: on outsiders, victims and bystanders
- Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Jew Legend Revisited 190
- Appendix Cadastral Registers 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571817948
- 1571815058
- OCLC:
- 45189016
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