Jews and their neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 / edited by Israel Bartal, Antony Polonsky, and Scott Ury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barṭal, Yiśraʼel.

Polonsky, Antony.

Ury, Scott.

Series:

Polin (Series) ; v 24.

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Polin Studies in Polish Jewry, 0268-1056 ; v. 24

Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Jewish way of life--History.

Jewish way of life.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

History.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Jews and their neighbors in Eastern Europe since 1750

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012.

Summary:

Counters the traditional image of Jews being in a permanent state of conflict with their eastern European neighbors by exploring neglected aspects of inter-group interaction, focusing on commonalities, reciprocal influence, and exchange.

Contents:

Between Jews and their neighbours: isolation, confrontation, and influence in Eastern Europe / Israel Bartal and Scott Ury

Reform and exclusion: conceptions of reform of the Jewish community during the declining years of the Polish Enlightenment / Marcin Wodziński

Praying at home in Lemberg: the Minyan laws of the Habsburg Empire 1776-1848 / Rachel Manekin

Overcoming the signs of the 'other': visual aspects of the acculturation of Jews in the Kingdom of Poland in the nineteenth century / Agnieszka Jagodzińska

The ideological roots of the Polish Jewish intelligentsia / Ela Bauer

Between permeability and isolation: Ezriel Natan Frenk as historian of the Jews in Poland / François Guesnet

S.A. An-sky

dialogic writer / Brian Horowitz

Between Judaism and the West: the making of a modern Jewish poet in Uri Zvi Greenberg's 'Memoirs (from the book of wanderings)' / Karin Neuburger

Between state loyalty and national identity: electoral behaviour in Inter-War Poland / Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg

Failed integration: Jews and the beginning of the Communist movement in Poland / Piotr Wróbel

The jewel in the Yiddish crown: who will occupy the chair in Yiddish at the University of Vilnius? / Kalman Weiser

Rites of violence? The pogroms of summer 1941 / Kai Struve

Nusekh poyln? Communism, publishing, and paths to Polishness among the Jewish parents of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue / Karen Auerbach

Changing images of 'the Jews' in Polish literature and culture, 1980-2000 / Dorota Glowacka

Ogee Arcades in the synagogue architecture of Volhynia and Podolia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Sergey R. Kravtsov

The attitude of American Jews and American diplomacy towards the bill banning Sheḥitah in Poland in the second half of the 1930s / Przemyslaw Róż̇ański

Imaging Polish Jews: British perspectives in the period 1944-1946 / Michael Fleming

'The hanging of Judas'; or, contemporary Jewish topics / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

1968; or, America! America! / Regina Grol

'Campo di fiori' fifty years later: the people who remain: a discussion that took place on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising / Jan Bloński, Marek Edelman, Czeslaw Milosz, and Jerzy Turowicz

Chimen Abramsky / Ada Rapoport-Albert

Marek Edelman / Richard Fenigsen.

Notes:

"Published for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1904113923

9781904113928

9781904113911

1904113915

OCLC:

768411313