Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3

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 EditorsJews in Warsaw Emanuel Ringelbaum, the Chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto ISRAEL GUTMANThe Undefined Town within a Town: A History of Jewish Settlement in the Western Districts of Warsaw PETER J. MARTYNThe Jewish Population in Warsaw at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ARTUR EISENBACH‘The Jews have Killed a Tailor’: The Socio-Political Background of a Pogrom in Warsaw in 1790 KRYSTYNA ZIENKOWSKAThe Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1862 STEFAN KIENIEWICZAspects of Population Change and of Acculturation in Jewish Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Censuses of 1882 and 1987 STEPHEN D. CORRSINAspects of the History Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre CHONE SHMERUKJewish Warsaw before the First World War PIOTR WROBELThe History of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer ROBERT MOSES SHAPIROArticlesThe Socio-Cultural Integration of the Jewish Population in the Province of Radom, 1815-1862 ADAM PENKALLAThe Religious Orders and the Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland JERZY KLOCZOWSKIThe Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women’s Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945 EWA KUREK-LESIKDocumentVladimir Jabotinsky’s Talks with Representatives of the Polish Government JERZY TOMASZEWSKICommentaryOn Immoral Reason and Illogical Morality ZYGMUNT BAUMANReportsInternational Conference on Polish Jews in Jerusalem ANTONY POLONSKYCatalogue of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland ADAM PENKALLAReviewsREVIEW ESSAYSKhazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century ANDRZEJ POPPEThe Polish Borderlands and Nationality Problems HENRY ROLLETBOOK REVIEWSLetter to the EditorsContributorsObituaries