Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw / edited by Antony Polonsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polonsky, Antony, editor.

American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies.

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England)

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Polin (Series) ; 0268-1056 Volume 7.

Polin : Studies in Polish Jewry ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czerniaków, Adam, 1880-1942.

Czerniaków, Adam.

Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942.

Korczak, Janusz.

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--20th century.

Jews.

Warsaw (Poland)--History--20th century.

Warsaw (Poland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 337 p. )

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008.

Summary:

"Polin" is a forum for historical and cultural material on Polish and East European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents, and a review essay section. This volume uncovers life in Nazi-occupied Germany.

Contents:

Statement from the editors

Articles: A brief history of the Jews in Royal Prussia before 1772 / Zenon Nowak. From the Ghetto to modern culture : the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer / Ritchie Robertson. Jan Czyński and the question of equality of rights for all religious faiths in Poland / Adam Gałkowski. Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forty and four' or the dangers of playing with Kabbalahs / Joanna Rostropowicz Clark. Gender differentiation and education of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer. Vox populi, Vox dei : the centrality of Peretz in Jewish folkloristics / Mark W. Kiel. The Linas-Hatsedek charitable fraternity in Białystok, 1885-1939 / Tomasz Wiśniewski. The Jewish press in Kraków (1918-1939) / Czesław Brzoza. Ritual slaughter as a political issue / Szymon Rudnicki. Britain and the Jewish exodus from Poland following the Second World War / Ariel Joseph Kochavi. Henryk Grynberg calls Poland to account / Jósef Wróbel

Life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: Three Ghetto sketches / Jan Marek Groński. My recollections of the deportation of Janusz Korczak / Marek Rudnicki. The death of Adam Czerniaków and Janusz Korczak's last journey / Jerzy Lewiński. Sister Wanda/ Anna Clarke

Notes: The activities of the democratic societies and democratic party in defending Jewish rights in Poland on the eve of Hitler's invasion / Aharon Weiss. Documents dealing with the history of Jews in Galicia in Lwow Archives / Dora Katzenelson

Review articles: The literary afterlife of Polish Jewry / Zygmunt Bauman. Jewish themes in 'The beautiful Mrs Seidenmann' by Andrzej Szczpiorski / Laura Quercioli. About the 'Jews-in-Poland' Exhibition in Kraków June-October 1989 / Aleksander Zyga.

Notes:

"Published for The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781909821583

1909821586

OCLC:

1048793131

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31365 hdl