Gershon Hundert is Professor of History and holds the Montreal Jewish Community Chair in Jewish Studies at McGill University.

• Towards a Polish-Jewish Dialogue KRZYSZTOF SLIWINSKI Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names Introduction GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT Part I Jews in Early Modern Poland Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland JACOB GOLDBERG 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim CHAVA WEISSLER The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought ELIMELECH WESTREICH The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book ELCHANAN REINER The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500-1800 ZENON GULDON and JACEK WIJACZKA Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwozdziec-Chodorow Group of Wooden Synagogues THOMAS HUBKA In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivhei haBesht MOSHE ROSMAN Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews DANIEL STONE Part II New Views Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations PAUL COATES 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter GERTRUD PICKHAN Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations CHONE SHMERUK On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland ISRAEL M. TA-SHMA Part III Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS On Eisenbach on Emancipation TOMASZ GASOWSKI A Reply to Tomasz Gasowski ARTUR EISENBACH Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer CHONE SHMERUK On Auschwitz NECHAMA TEC BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES, 1994 Notes on Contributors Glossary Index

Gershon Hundert is Professor of History and holds the Montreal Jewish Community Chair in Jewish Studies at McGill University.

• Towards a Polish-Jewish Dialogue KRZYSZTOF SLIWINSKI Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names Introduction GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT Part I Jews in Early Modern Poland Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland JACOB GOLDBERG 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim CHAVA WEISSLER The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought ELIMELECH WESTREICH The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book ELCHANAN REINER The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500-1800 ZENON GULDON and JACEK WIJACZKA Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwozdziec-Chodorow Group of Wooden Synagogues THOMAS HUBKA In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivhei haBesht MOSHE ROSMAN Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews DANIEL STONE Part II New Views Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations PAUL COATES 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter GERTRUD PICKHAN Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations CHONE SHMERUK On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland ISRAEL M. TA-SHMA Part III Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS On Eisenbach on Emancipation TOMASZ GASOWSKI A Reply to Tomasz Gasowski ARTUR EISENBACH Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer CHONE SHMERUK On Auschwitz NECHAMA TEC BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES, 1994 Notes on Contributors Glossary Index

Gershon Hundert is Professor of History and holds the Montreal Jewish Community Chair in Jewish Studies at McGill University.

• Towards a Polish-Jewish Dialogue KRZYSZTOF SLIWINSKI Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names Introduction GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT Part I Jews in Early Modern Poland Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland JACOB GOLDBERG 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim CHAVA WEISSLER The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought ELIMELECH WESTREICH The Ashkenazi Elite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book ELCHANAN REINER The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500-1800 ZENON GULDON and JACEK WIJACZKA Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwozdziec-Chodorow Group of Wooden Synagogues THOMAS HUBKA In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivhei haBesht MOSHE ROSMAN Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews DANIEL STONE Part II New Views Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations PAUL COATES 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter GERTRUD PICKHAN Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations CHONE SHMERUK On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland ISRAEL M. TA-SHMA Part III Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS On Eisenbach on Emancipation TOMASZ GASOWSKI A Reply to Tomasz Gasowski ARTUR EISENBACH Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer CHONE SHMERUK On Auschwitz NECHAMA TEC BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES, 1994 Notes on Contributors Glossary Index