From Shtetl to Socialism

'An outstanding history of Jewish life in Poland ... The introduction and sensitive editing by Antony Polonsky give us an insight into scholarship covering a fascinating history and the basic problems of Jewish life which are not only the mark of Polish/Jewish history but become paradigmatic of all the Jewish life ... brings together the writings of those scholars who have specialized in Polish history and have total command of both Yiddish and Polish, but are also aware of other scholars and their contributions ... becomes a summary of a decade of scholarship, and is also an introduction for what should be more than a decade of future work ... This first volume should be followed by other texts which will help us to gain wisdom and understanding-the central purpose of the Littman Library, which must be congratulated for this new venture.' European Judaism 'Antony Polonsky's monumental collection of studies cover the ten centuries of Jewish life in Poland ... written by acknowledged scholars ... The spectrum is broad ... One can only express admiration for the editor and the institutions concerned for this effort to enlighten us and future generations about some aspects of Jewish existence in a land where, practically speaking, Jews live no more.' Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post '... to be welcomed.' Harry Rabinowicz, Le'ela

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Antony Polonsky is the first holder of the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, a joint appointment held in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

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List of maps Introduction Part I Pre-Partition Poland (to 1795) 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 ZUK Part II The Nineteenth Century The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1861 STEFAN KIENIEWICZ The Jewish Community in the Political Life of Lodz in the Years 1865-1914 PAWEL SAMUS 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 Part III Between the Two World Wars 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 Lodz, 1914-1939 ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO The Image of the Shtetl in Polish Literature EUGENIA PROKOPOWNA The Polish Jewish Daily Press MICHAEL C. STEINLAUF From 'Numerus Clausus' to 'Numerus Nullus' SZYMON RUDNICKI Part IV The Second World War 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 Part V After 1945 The Contexts of the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II KRYSTYNA KERSTEN and PAWEL SZAPIRO Is There a Jewish School of Polish Literature? JAN BLONSKI A Voice from the Diaspora: Julian Stryjkowski LAURA QUERCIOLI-MINCER Poles and Poland in I. B. Singer's Fiction MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA Notes on Contributors Chronological Table Maps Glossary Index

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