Research Catalog

Title

From shtetl to socialism : studies from Polin / edited by Antony Polonsky.

Publication

London ; Washington : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Polonsky, Antony
• Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England)
• Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Description

xxxiii, 581 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Uniform Title

• Polin (Series)
• Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Subject

• Jews > Poland > History
• Jews > Poland > Civilization
• Poland > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Published for The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford, an associate centre of The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The reconstruction of pre-Ashkenazic Jewish settlements in the Slavic lands in the light of linguistic sources / Paul Wexler -- Some basic characteristics of the Jewish experience in Poland / Gershon David Hundert -- Images of the Jew in the Polish Commonwealth / Janusz Tazbir -- A minority views the majority : Jewish attitudes towards the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and interaction with Poles / M. J. Rosman -- The changes in the attitude of Polish society toward the Jews in the eighteenth century / Jacob Goldberg -- A mobile class. The subjective element in the social perception of Jews : the example of eighteenth-century Poland / Anna Żuk -- The Jews of Warsaw, Polish society, and the partitioning powers, 1795-1861 / Stefan Kieniewicz -- The Jewish community in the political life of Łódź in the years 1865-1914 / Paweł Samuś -- Aspects of the history of Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre / Chone Shmeruk -- Non-Jews and gentile society in East European Hebrew and Yiddish literature 1856-1914 / Israel Bartal -- Trends in the literary perception of Jews in modern Polish fiction / Magdalena Opalski -- Eros and enlightenment : love against marriage in the East European Jewish enlightenment / David Biale -- Gender differentiation and education of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer -- Polish synagogues in the nineteenth century / Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka.
• Ethnic diversity in twentieth-century Poland / Norman Davies -- Some methodological problems of the study of Jewish history in Poland between the two World Wars / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Lucien Wolf and the making of Poland : Paris, 1919 / Eugene C. Black -- Aspects of Jewish self-government in Łódź, 1914-1939 / Robert Moses Shapiro -- The image of the Shtetl in Polish literature / Eugenia Prokopówna -- The Polish Jewish daily press / Michael C. Steinlauf -- From 'numerus clausus' to 'numerus nullus' / Szymon Rudnicki. -- Jews and Poles under Soviet occupation (1939-1941) : conflicting interests / Pawel Korzec and Jean-Charles Szurek -- The Western allies and the Holocaust / David Engel -- The conditions of admittance and the social background of Jewish children saved by women's religious orders in Poland, 1939-1945 / Ewa Kurek-Lesik -- The contexts of the so-called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II / Krystyna Kersten and Paweł Szapiro -- Is there a Jewish school of Polish literature? / Jan Błoński -- A voice from the Diaspora : Julian Stryjkowski / Laura Quercioli-Mincer -- Poles and Poland in I. B. Singer's fiction / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska.

ISBN

1874774145 :

LCCN

^^^93029009^

OCLC

• 28508506
• SCSB-12194897

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library