The Jewish inn in Polish culture : between practice and phantasm / edited by Halina Goldberg and Bożena Shallcross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Halina, 1961- editor.

Contributor:

Shallcross, Bożena, editor.

Series:

Jews in Eastern Europe (Bloomington, Ind.)

Jews in Eastern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Hospitality.

Jews--Poland--Social conditions--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Poland--Social conditions--20th century.

Hotelkeepers--Poland--History.

Hotelkeepers.

Hospitality--History.

Jews, Polish.

Physical Description:

xxi, 225 pages : illustrations, charts, photographs ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2025.

Contents:

Preface : An invitation to the Jewish inn / Bożena Shallcross

Part I : Theatrical and literary phantasms. The Jewish innkeeper in Polish National Ballet / Halina Goldberg ; The romantic invention of the Jewish inn / Bożena Shallcross

Part II : Contractual frameworks. Jewish tavern here and there : regional differences in forms of rural lease-holdings before and after the Partitions / Judith Kalik

Part III : Communal spaces in transition. Jewish musicians in the Polish inn during the nineteenth century / Benjamin Vogel ; From taverns to courtyards and cafés : how the shtetl migrated into fin de siécle Warsaw / Beth Holmgren

Part IV : Innkeepers' daughters. Jula's diary : a Hasidic tavernkeeper's daughter during the First World War / Glenn Dynner ; Writing for hay : Wyspiański's Rachela as arbiter of speculative value / Eliza Rose

Part V : The voided Austeria. From lost center to not-knowing : on the use of the Jewish inn in Julian Stryjkowski's The Inn and Piotr Szewc's Annihilation / Alexander Lindskog ; Austeria and the inn : Kawalerowicz's movie and its reception in Poland / Iwona Kurz

Part VI : After nostalgia. Serving ciulim in the Polish countryside : food and the construction of a "Polish-Jewish heritage" / Magdalena Zatorska ; Jewish tavern, Jewish places : beyond nostalgia / Sławomir Sikora.

Notes:

Includes index and bibliographical references.

ISBN:

025307293X

9780253072931

0253072921

9780253072924

OCLC:

1443763000