Michał Galas is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University and the Secretary of the Commission on the History and Culture of the Jews at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. He is the author of Rabin Markus Jastrow i jego wizja reformy judaizmu: Studium z dziejów judaizmu w XIX wieku (2007) and editor of Duchowość żydowska w Polsce (2000); Żydzi lelowscy: Obecność i ślady (Kraków, 2006); and Światło i słońce: Studia z dziejów chasydyzmu (2006). He has also written numerous articles on the history of the Jewish religion in Poland, particularly on Sabbatianism and Frankism. 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.

'This collection of studies on post-1772 Kraków Jewry is an extremely valuable and very readable contribution to the literature . . . Most are by well-known specialists, but not all of them have been widely published in English, which gives added value to this volume . . . corrects many misconceptions about Judaism in modern Poland. The articles can also stand alone, which adds to the utility of the volume for students. The glossary and fine index help to make this book very accessible to non-experts.' Religious Studies Review

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: JEWS IN KRAKÓW SINCE 1772Introduction MICHAŁ GALAS AND ANTONY POLONSKYJewish Primary and Seconday School Education in the Free City of Kraków (1815–1846) ANNA JAKIMYSZYNChanges in the Jewish Community of Kraków in Autonomous Galicia ŁUKASZ TOMASZ SROKAAmbiguities of Assimilation: The Kraków Conservatives and the Jews PHILIP PAJAKOWSKIThe History of the Jewish Community of Podgórze BARBARA ZBROJAThe Kraków Association of Progressive Jews 1864–1874 HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITTThe Impact of New Ideologies: The Transformation of Kraków Jewry between 1895 and 1914 ANDRZEJ ŻBIKOWSKIOrthodox Jewry in Kraków at the End of the Nineteenth Century RACHEL MANEKINThe Polonization of Jews: Some Examples from Kraków JACEK PURCHLAJewish Participation in the Elections to Kraków City Council during the Interwar Period (1919–1939) CZESŁAW BRZOZAThe Political Thought of Nowy Dziennik in its Early Period: July 1918–February 1919 JANUSZ FAŁOWSKI Between Politics and Spirituality: The Case of Dr Oziasz Thon (1870–1936), Reform Rabbi of Kraków EMANUEL MELZERSoroh Schenirer (1883–1935), Founder of the Beis Yaakov Movement: Her Vision and her Legacy CAROLINE SCHARFER‘The Borderland’: The Beys Yaakov School in Kraków as a Symbolic Encounter between East and West AGNIESZKA OLESZAKFuture Generations: Associations for Jewish Children in Kraków, 1918–1939 SEAN MARTINJewish Artists in Interwar Kraków NATASZA STYRNAJewish Antiquarian Booksellers in Kraków RYSZARD LÖWThe Ethnic Panorama of Nazi-Occupied Kraków ANDRZEJ CHWALBAThe Jewish Orphanage in Kraków ROMAN ROSDOLSKYThe Image of Post-War Kraków in Jewish Writing, 1945–1950 MONIKA STĘPIEŃ {1 table}‘Kraków was my world. My home was there and my mother; whoever of my family was alive would return to Kraków’ – Kraków in Post-1945 Jewish Literature KATARZYNA ZECHENTER‘A World before a Catastrophe: Krakow Jews between the Wars’: An Exhibition at Kraków’s International Cultural Centre HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITTSpeech by Rafael Scharf given at the former building of the Jewish High School in KazimierzPART II: NEW VIEWSNotes on Galician Jews MICHAEL C. STEINLAUFJewish Slaves in Forced Labour Camps in Kielce, Radom District, September 1942–August 1944 SARA BENDERThe Myth of Ritual Murder in Post-War Poland: Pathology and Hypotheses MARCIN ZAREMBAA History of Jewish Settlement in Lower Silesia after the Second World War (1945–1950) EWA WASZKIEWICZOBITUARY Abe Brumberg MICHAEL ROSENBUSHGlossary Notes on the Contributors Index

Michał Galas is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University and the Secretary of the Commission on the History and Culture of the Jews at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. He is the author of Rabin Markus Jastrow i jego wizja reformy judaizmu: Studium z dziejów judaizmu w XIX wieku (2007) and editor of Duchowość żydowska w Polsce (2000); Żydzi lelowscy: Obecność i ślady (Kraków, 2006); and Światło i słońce: Studia z dziejów chasydyzmu (2006). He has also written numerous articles on the history of the Jewish religion in Poland, particularly on Sabbatianism and Frankism. 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.

'This collection of studies on post-1772 Kraków Jewry is an extremely valuable and very readable contribution to the literature . . . Most are by well-known specialists, but not all of them have been widely published in English, which gives added value to this volume . . . corrects many misconceptions about Judaism in modern Poland. The articles can also stand alone, which adds to the utility of the volume for students. The glossary and fine index help to make this book very accessible to non-experts.' Religious Studies Review

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: JEWS IN KRAKÓW SINCE 1772Introduction MICHAŁ GALAS AND ANTONY POLONSKYJewish Primary and Seconday School Education in the Free City of Kraków (1815–1846) ANNA JAKIMYSZYNChanges in the Jewish Community of Kraków in Autonomous Galicia ŁUKASZ TOMASZ SROKAAmbiguities of Assimilation: The Kraków Conservatives and the Jews PHILIP PAJAKOWSKIThe History of the Jewish Community of Podgórze BARBARA ZBROJAThe Kraków Association of Progressive Jews 1864–1874 HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITTThe Impact of New Ideologies: The Transformation of Kraków Jewry between 1895 and 1914 ANDRZEJ ŻBIKOWSKIOrthodox Jewry in Kraków at the End of the Nineteenth Century RACHEL MANEKINThe Polonization of Jews: Some Examples from Kraków JACEK PURCHLAJewish Participation in the Elections to Kraków City Council during the Interwar Period (1919–1939) CZESŁAW BRZOZAThe Political Thought of Nowy Dziennik in its Early Period: July 1918–February 1919 JANUSZ FAŁOWSKI Between Politics and Spirituality: The Case of Dr Oziasz Thon (1870–1936), Reform Rabbi of Kraków EMANUEL MELZERSoroh Schenirer (1883–1935), Founder of the Beis Yaakov Movement: Her Vision and her Legacy CAROLINE SCHARFER‘The Borderland’: The Beys Yaakov School in Kraków as a Symbolic Encounter between East and West AGNIESZKA OLESZAKFuture Generations: Associations for Jewish Children in Kraków, 1918–1939 SEAN MARTINJewish Artists in Interwar Kraków NATASZA STYRNAJewish Antiquarian Booksellers in Kraków RYSZARD LÖWThe Ethnic Panorama of Nazi-Occupied Kraków ANDRZEJ CHWALBAThe Jewish Orphanage in Kraków ROMAN ROSDOLSKYThe Image of Post-War Kraków in Jewish Writing, 1945–1950 MONIKA STĘPIEŃ {1 table}‘Kraków was my world. My home was there and my mother; whoever of my family was alive would return to Kraków’ – Kraków in Post-1945 Jewish Literature KATARZYNA ZECHENTER‘A World before a Catastrophe: Krakow Jews between the Wars’: An Exhibition at Kraków’s International Cultural Centre HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITTSpeech by Rafael Scharf given at the former building of the Jewish High School in KazimierzPART II: NEW VIEWSNotes on Galician Jews MICHAEL C. STEINLAUFJewish Slaves in Forced Labour Camps in Kielce, Radom District, September 1942–August 1944 SARA BENDERThe Myth of Ritual Murder in Post-War Poland: Pathology and Hypotheses MARCIN ZAREMBAA History of Jewish Settlement in Lower Silesia after the Second World War (1945–1950) EWA WASZKIEWICZOBITUARY Abe Brumberg MICHAEL ROSENBUSHGlossary Notes on the Contributors Index