Warsaw: The Jewish metropolis : Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky / edited by Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dynner, Glenn, 1969- editor.

Guesnet, François, editor.

Polonsky, Antony, honouree.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 15.

IJS studies in Judaica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--History.

Jews.

Intellectual life.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Poland--Warsaw.

History.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Social conditions.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Economic conditions.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Intellectual life.

Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

Warsaw (Poland).

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Economic conditions.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Jewish metropolis

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

The Institute of Jewish Studies, founded in 1954 by the late Alexander Altmann, is dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of scholarship in Jewish Studies and related fields. Its programmes include public lectures, seminars, and annual conferences. All lectures and conferences are open to the general public. Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonizaiton. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry's religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis

1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792 / Hanna Wegrzynek Wegrzynek, Hanna 19

2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820) / Cornelia Aust Aust, Cornelia 42

3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization / Ela Bauer Bauer, Ela 70

4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebhe / Glenn Dynner Dynner, Glenn 91

5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880 / François Guesnet Guesnet, François 128

6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi / Shaul Stampfer Stampfer, Shaul 154

7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914 / Nathan Cohen Cohen, Nathan 180

8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe / Scott Ury Ury, Scott 207

9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism,1905-12 / Michael C. Steinlauf Steinlauf, Michael C. 227

10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe" : Study for a Group Picture / Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna 252

11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War / Robert Blobaum Blobaum, Robert 271

12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"? / Kaiman Weiser Weiser, Kaiman 298

13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and Paris / Gennady Estraikh Estraikh, Gennady 323

14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period / Gershon Bacon Bacon, Gershon 347

15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry / Natalia Aleksiun Aleksiun, Natalia 370

16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw / Kenneth B. Moss Moss, Kenneth B. 390

Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath

17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943 / Joshua D. Zimmerman Zimmerman, Joshua D. 437

18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust / Havi Dreifuss Dreifuss, Havi 467

19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach / Samuel Kassow Kassow, Samuel 496

20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949 / Joanna B. Michlic Michlic, Joanna B. 515

21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 539

22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust / David Engel Engel, David 562

23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents / Karen Auerbach Auerbach, Karen 570

24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed / Marci Shore Shore, Marci 590

25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan 613.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9004291806

9789004291805

9004291814

9789004291812

OCLC:

903363613

Publisher Number:

99965758621