Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 37

Co-editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe, Polin, 34 (2022), and, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków.Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.Katrin Steffen is DAAD Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture at the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. She is a member of the editorial staff of Medaon: A Journal for Jewish Life in Research and Education, and has held research fellowships in Warsaw, Jerusalem, Lviv, and Leipzig. Her publications include Blut und Metall. Die transnationale Wissensräume von Ludwik Hirszfeld und Jan Czochralski im 20 Jahrhundert (2021).

• IntroductionFrançois Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Katrin Steffen1. ENCOUNTERS BEFORE 1800Solomon Dubno: an Eastern European Maskil and the German HaskalahZuzanna KrzemieńFeminine Discontent and Social Control in Maskilic Comedy and Sturm und Drang MelodramaMarc CaplanMecklenburg-Poland. The Emotional History of A Jewish Hyphen, 1750--1800Malgorzata MaksymiakEncounters between Jews and Non-Jews in Prussian Warsaw, 1796--1806Markus Nesselrodt2. ENCOUNTERS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYYosl ben Todros: S. Y. Agnon on the Language of AshkenazIsrael BartalSamuel Adler: A German Reform Rabbi and the Lemberg TempleRachel ManekinThe Jews of Lemberg between the Viennese Kaffeehaus and the Polish KawiarniaDelphine BechtelA Master of Interference: The Daytsh in Yiddish LiteratureMarie Schumacher-BrunhesThe Linguistic Politics of Jewish Emancipation: Leon Pinsker between German, Yiddish, and HebrewMarc VoloviciGerman Literature in Yiddish Translation, 1891--1939Agnieszka ŻółkiewskaSir Toggenburg of the Shtetl: Friedrich Schiller in the East European Jewish ImaginationSonia Gollance3. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE INTERWAR PERIODNarratives of the First World War: Multiple Jewish PerspectivesAlina MolisakJewish Laughter and Jewish Tears: The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism in the Joke Pages of the Yiddish Press in 1930s PolandAnne-Christin KlotzAn Inverted Hierarchy: Ostjuden and Yekkes in Mandatory Palestine, 1933–1948Nathan FriedenbergThe Polenaktionen of October 1938 and September 1939. From Expulsion to ExterminationAline Bothe4. WARTIME, HOLOCAUST, POST-HOLOCAUST‘Between us and them there still stands a wall’: German Jews Deported to the Warsaw Ghetto, Spring 1942Maria Ferenc and Katarzyna PersonCollaboration, Complexity, and ‘Integrated History’: Jewish and German Historiographical Representations of Non-German Perpetrators during the HolocaustLaura Jokusch and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe5. 1945 TO THE PRESENTWrocław Jewish Transports, 1946: Persecuted as Jews, Expelled as Germans, Not Recognized as VictimsMaria LuftEnduring Taboos: Jewish Life in Post-War Germany, 1945--1960Joseph CroninGermans, Jews and Poles: On the Difficult New Beginning of Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main after 1945Tobias FreimüllerResponses to Silence: The Jewish Museums in Berlin and WarsawMichael MengRecovery versus Regression: Identity and Impact in the Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pawlikowski’s Ida and Petzold’s PhoenixMendel Weintraub6. THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GERMAN AND EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH CULTURESA German Jewish Head Teacher in Lithuania: Memories of Schwabe’s Hebrew Gymnasium in KovnoTessa Rajak