Polish Jewish culture beyond the capital : centering the periphery / edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff, with Natalia Aleksiun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldberg, Halina, 1961- editor.

Sinkoff, Nancy, 1959- editor.

Aleksiun, Natalia, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Poland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Jews--Poland--Social life and customs--19th century.

Jews--Poland--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--Poland--Identity.

Jewish arts--Poland.

Jewish arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899-1939). In this multidisciplinary essay collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture. Each essay presents readers with the extraordinary production and consumption of culture by Polish Jews in literature, film, cabaret, theater, the visual arts, architecture, and music. They show how this process was defined by a reciprocal cultural exchange that flourished between cities at the periphery-from Lwów and Wilno to Kraków and Łódź-and international centers like Warsaw, thereby illuminating the place of Polish Jews within urban European cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Note on Place Names, Personal Names, and Transliterations

Introduction

Part I. Tradition and Rebellion

1. "The Holiday That Applies to Everyone": Ararat Kleynkunst Theater and the Challenge of Populist Modernism

2. Elkhonen Vogler, Forgotten Poet of Yung-Vilne, in Vilna and the Litvak Borderlands

3. Scandalous Glass House: On Modernist Transparency in Architecture and Life

4. Jewish Expressionism between Discourses of Revival and Degeneration: The Yung-Yidish Group

Part II. Performers and Audiences

5. The Theatrics of Bais Yaakov

6. A Spectacle of Differences: Bracha Zefira's Tour of Poland in 1929

7. Music of "the Foreign Nations" or "Native Culture": Concert Programming in Interwar Lwów as a Discourse about Jewish Musical Identities

8. From Lodzermensz to Szmonces and Back: On the Multidirectional Flow of Culture

Part III. Maps and Spaces

9. The Layered Meanings of an Unbuilt Monument: Kraków Jews Commemorate the Polish King Casimir the Great

10. Mapping Modern Jewish Kraków: Women-Cultural Production-Space

11. Movie Theaters and the Development of Jewish Public Space in Interwar Poland

12. The Politics of Jewish Youth Movement Culture in Interwar Poland's Eastern Borderlands

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Soundscapes of Modernity Program

Selected Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-3605-8

1-9788-3606-6

OCLC:

1388496603