Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 1

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.

• Statement from the EditorsArticlesThe Reconstruction of Pre-Ashkenazic Jewish Settlements in the Slavic Lands in the Light of Linguistic SourcesPaul WexlerJewish Perceptions of Insecurity and Powerlessness in 16th–18th Century PolandM. J. RosmanSome Basic Characteristics of the Jewish Experience in PolandGershon David HundertThe Changes in the Attitude of Polish Society towards the Jews in the 18th CenturyJacob GoldbergEros and Enlightenment: Love against Marriage in the East European Jewish EnlightenmentDavid BialePolish-Jewish Relations and the January Uprising: The Polish PerspectiveMagdalena OpalskiLoyalty to the Crown or Polish Patriotism? The Metamorphoses of an Anti-Polish Story of the 1863 InsurrectionIsrael BartalThe Polish Revolt of 1863 and the Birth of Russification: Bad for the Jews?John D. KlierA Turning Point in the History of Polish Socialism and its Attitude towards the Jewish QuestionMoshe MishkinskyThe Question of the Assimilation of Jews in the Polish Kingdom, 1864-1987: An Interpretative EssayAlina CalaThe Sedular Appropriation of Hasidism by an East European Jewish Intellectual: Dubnow, Renan, and the BeshtRobert M. SeltzerSome Methodological Problems of the Study of Jewish History in Poland between the Two World WarsJerzy TomaszewskiJews and Poles in Yiddish Literature in Poland between the Two World WarsChone ShmerukIs there a Jewish School of Polish Literature?Jan BlonskiThe Underground Movement in Auschwitz Concentration CampJózef GarlinskiDocumentsJerzy Tomaszewski, Pinsk, Staurday, 5 April 1919InterviewOn Translating the Bible into Polish: An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz, conducted by Ewa CzarneckaA DialogueIn Anger and In SorrowRafael ScharfSome Thoughts on Polish-Jewish RelationsWladyslaw BartoszewskiBibliographical EssaysThe Jewish Community of the Second Republic in Polish Historiography of the 1980sAndrzej ChojnowskiThe Western Allies and the HolocaustDavid EngelFive Wartime TestimoniesWladyslaw BartoszewskiAshkenzaic Jewry and the CatastropheSteven J. ZippersteinBook ReviewsNotes on Contributors