Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish : Polish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosman, Moshe.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 p.).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

Note on Place Names

Maps

Introduction

Part 1: Historiography

1. A New Scholarly Foundation: The Historiography of Polish Jewry since 1945

2. The Verdict of Israeli Historiography on Hasidism

3. POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the New Polish Jewish Metahistory

Part 2: Jews and other Poles

4. Jewish Perceptions of Persecution and Powerlessness in the Commonwealth

5. A Minority Views the Majority Jewish Attitudes towards the Commonwealth and Interaction with Poles

6. Dubno in the Wake of Khmelnytsky

7. The Question of the Jews in the Constitution of the Third of May

Part 3: The Jewish Community

8. Jewish Autonomy in Poland and the Polish Regime

9. The Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside Poland-Lithuania

10. The Indebtedness of the Lublin Kahal in the Eighteenth Century

11. Everyday Violence in Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth

12. The Image of Poland as a Torah Centre after 1648

Part 4: Women

Introduction

13. History of Jewish Women in the Commonwealth I: An Assessment

14. History of Jewish Women in the Commonwealth II: From Facilitation to Participation

15. Leah Horowitz's Tkhine imohos: A Proto-Feminist Demand to Increase Jewish Women's Religious Capital

Part 5: Hasidism

16. The Rise of Hasidism

17. Miedzyboz and Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov

18. Stories that Changed History: The Unique Career of Shivhei habesht

19. Hasidism as a Modern Phenomenon

Conclusion: Theme Decoding

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version: Rosman, Moshe Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish

ISBN:

9781800859074

1800859074

Publisher Number:

40031216779

Access Restriction:

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