Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe Since 1750 / edited by Yiśraʼel Barṭal, Antony Polonsky, Scott Ury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barṭal, Yiśraʼel, editor.

Polonsky, Antony, editor.

Ury, Scott, editor.

Series:

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs.

Jews.

Jewish way of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 450 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Polin

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Counters the traditional image of Jews being in a permanent state of conflict with their eastern European neighbors by exploring neglected aspects of inter-group interaction, focusing on commonalities, reciprocal influence, and exchange.

Contents:

Note on Place Names

Note on Transliteration

PART I: JEWS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS IN EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1750

Between Jews and their Neighbours: Isolation, Confrontation, and Influence in Eastern Europe ISRAEL BARTAL & SCOTT URY

Reform and Exclusion: Conceptions of the Reform of the Jewish Community during the Declining Years of the Polish Enlightenment MARCIN WODZINSKI

Praying at Home: The Minyan Laws of the Habsburg Empire RACHEL MANEKIN

Overcoming the Signs of the 'Other': Visual Aspects of the Acculturation of Jews in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century AGNIESZKA JAGODZINSKA

The Ideological Roots of the Polish Jewish Intelligentsia ELA BAUER

Between Permeability and Isolation: Ezriel Natan Frenk as Historian of the Jews in Poland FRANCOIS GUESNET

S. A. An-sky - Dialogic Writer BRIAN HOROWITZ

Between Judaism and the West: The Making of a Modern Jewish Poet in Uri Zvi Greenberg's 'Memoirs (from the Book of Wanderings)' KARIN NEUBURGER

Between State Loyalty and National Identity: Electoral Behaviour in Interwar Poland JEFFREY S. KOPSTEIN & JASON WITTENBERG

Failed Integration: Jews and the Beginning of the Communist Movement in Poland PIOTR WROBEL

The Jewel in the Yiddish Crown: Who Will Occupy the Chair for Yiddish at the University of Vilnius? KALMAN WEISER

Rites of Violence? The Pogroms of Summer 1941 KAI STRUVE

Nusekh Poyln? Communism, Publishing, and Paths to Polishness among the Jewish Parents of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue KAREN AUERBACH

Changing Images of 'the Jews' in Polish Literature and Culture, 1980-2000 DOROTA GLOWACKA

PART II: NEW VIEWS

Ogee Arcades in Synagogue Architecture of Volhynia and Podolia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries SERGEI R. KRAVTSOV

The Attitude of American Jews and American Diplomacy towards the Bill Banning Shehitah in Poland in the Second Half of the 1930s PRZEMYSLAW ROZANSKI

Imagining Polish Jews: British Perspectives in the Period 1944-1946 MICHAEL FLEMING

'The Hanging of Judas'; or, Contemporary Jewish Subjects JOANNA TOKARSKA-BAKIR 1968; or, America! America! REGINA GROL

'Campo di Fiori' Fifty Years Later: The People Who Remain A discussion that took place on the fiftieth anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, between JAN BLONSKI, MAREK EDELMAN, CZESLAW MILOSZ, and JERZY TUROWICZ

Obituaries Chimen Abramsky Marek Edelman

Glossary

Notes on the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-83764-898-0