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A history of East European Jews / by Heiko Haumann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haumann, Heiko, 1945-
- Standardized Title:
- Geschichte der Ostjuden. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Europe, Eastern--History.
- Jews.
- Europe, Eastern--History.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS
- The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution
- The Opponents of the Jews
- Economic Success
- Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews
- Learning and Culture
- The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country
- A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland?
- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE
- The Catastrophe of 1648
- The Consequences of the Catastrophe
- The Kabbala
- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank
- The Popular Piety of Hasidism
- The Origins of the Ostjuden
- The 'Shtetl'
- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and
- Innkeepers
- The Symbiosis Diminishes
- Jews in the Partitions of Poland
- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual,
- and Religious Conditions
- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews
- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule
- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY
- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function
- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring'
- Luftmenshn
- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New
- Intermediary Activities
- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti-
- Semitism
- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment
- Assimilation and Acculturation
- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews
- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di
- The Jewish Family
- Men and Women in Jewish Society
- Jewish Upbringing
- Everyday Religious Customs
- Synagogue and Community Organizations
- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World
- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity
- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland
- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina
- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary
- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in
- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria
- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia
- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE
- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union
- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti-
- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars
- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European
- Countries
- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews
- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope
- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals
- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works
- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews
- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New
- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe
- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern
- Europe a New Identity
- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-45766-2
- 615-5211-52-3
- OCLC:
- 939263426
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