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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 34
Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe
Av François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky
Inbunden, 2022
1509 kr
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Few features have shaped east European Jewish history as much as the extent and continuity of Jewish self-rule. Offering a broad perspective, this volume explores the traditions, scope, limitations, and evolution of Jewish self-government in the Polish lands and beyond. Extensive autonomy and …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 34
Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe
Av François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2022
661 kr
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Few features have shaped east European Jewish history as much as the extent and continuity of Jewish self-rule. Offering a broad perspective, this volume explores the traditions, scope, limitations, and evolution of Jewish self-government in the Polish lands and beyond. Extensive autonomy and …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35
Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel
Av Israel Bartal, François Guesnet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1381 kr
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An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a political movement, Zionism had as its main goal …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35
Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel
Av Israel Bartal, François Guesnet m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
608 kr
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An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a political movement, Zionism had as its main goal …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36
Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe
Av Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1381 kr
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Changes in childhood and children’s roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to historians. Recent years have seen the emergence of new perspectives on the study of childhood, both in historical scholarship and in literary and …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36
Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe
Av Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
608 kr
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Changes in childhood and children’s roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to historians. Recent years have seen the emergence of new perspectives on the study of childhood, both in historical scholarship and in literary and …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 37
Jews in Polish and German Lands: Encounters, Interactions, Inspirations
Av François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1552 kr
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Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solely within national boundaries, thereby ignoring the interactions that have in practice shaped Jewish cultural life. Geographical proximity has meant that …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38
Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History
Av Elissa Bemporad, François Guesnet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
780 kr
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Jewish attitudes to the body, gender, and sexuality are traditionally influenced by religious considerations. Explorations in this volume extend to how communal and state-related concerns have intersected with the personal—in care for the elderly, birth control, white slavery, and burial, as well …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 39
Poles and Jews through the Prism of Culture
Av Aviv Livnat, Alina Molisak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
780 kr
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Since the late eighteenth century artistic representation has had a growing impact on how Poles and Jews have perceived each other. Literary works, the visual arts, and, from the twentieth century onwards, film, have complemented earlier perceptions shaped by religious prejudice and everyday …
Studies from Polin: From Shtetl to Socialism
Häftad, 1993
458 kr
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Until 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 10
Jews in Early Modern Poland
Av Hundert
Häftad, 1997
543 kr
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Jewish society in Poland-Lithuania in the second half of the eighteenth century was by no means insular: Jews numbered about 750,000, and comprised about half the urban population of the country. The contact between Jews and the wider Polish society found expression in the languages Jews knew, in …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 11
Focusing on Aspects and Experiences of Religion
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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Addressing various aspects of Jewish life and religion, particularly in the last two centuries, this book examines different aspects of the Hasidic tradition; present-day contacts between Bobower Hasidism in New York and Bobowa in Poland; and how a rabbi trained in the Lithuanian tradition adapted …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 12
Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians 1772-1918
Av Israel Bartal, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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From 1772-1918 Jews were concentrated more densely in Galicia than in any other area in Europe. Bartal (modern Jewish history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Polonsky (Judaic and social studies, Brandeis University) are joined by a number of other scholars of Judaism to explore the Jewish …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13
Focusing on the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Av Antony Polonsky, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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The assessment of the Nazi genocide in Poland, an issue which has deeply divided Poles and Jews, lies at the core of this volume. Also included are discussions of Polish attitudes to the nearly 300,000 Jews who tried to resettle in post-war Poland; the little-known testimony of Belzec survivor …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14
Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands
Häftad, 2001
543 kr
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1569, covered a wide spectrum of faiths and languages. The nobility, who were the main focus of Polishness, were predominantly Catholic, particularly from the later seventeenth century; the peasantry included Catholics, Protestants, and members of the …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 15
Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900
Häftad, 2002
543 kr
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This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife
Av Michael C. Steinlauf, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2003
413 kr
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Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature; even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of ‘great works’. This volume of Polin focuses on the less explored but historically vital theme of Jewish …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 17
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality
Häftad, 2004
434 kr
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The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Jews live in big cities, the majority of Jews in Poland historically lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls; even as late as 1931, only 43% lived in towns with a …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Index to Volumes 1-12
Häftad, 2000
492 kr
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This consolidated index to the first twelve volumes of Polin will be a vital tool for scholars and students interested in any area of Polish Jewish studies. * Table of contents by volume-each volume at a glance * Chronological table of contents-each historical period at a glance * Index of …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 18
Jewish Women in Eastern Europe
Av Polonsky, ChaeRan Freeze m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
434 kr
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Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 19
Polish-Jewish Relations in North America
Av Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2006
594 kr
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Poland today is a very different country from the Poland of the past, yet attitudes inherited from the past continue to affect Polish–Jewish relations in the present. In Poland itself, now a free society, memories of the Jewish place in Poland’s history, long suppressed by communism, are being …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 20
Making Holocaust Memory
Av Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
543 kr
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Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish–Jewish relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness of the Second World War subsumed the …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 6
Jews in Lodz, 1820-1939
Häftad, 2005
333 kr
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This volume is devoted to the part Jews played in the history of Lódz between 1820 and 1939. Specifically, it focuses on the place of the Jews in the industrial elite of this multi-ethnic textile town, and on its role as a centre of the modern movement and of Jewish artistic and literary …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 1
Poles and Jews: Renewing the Dialogue
Häftad, 2004
528 kr
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In this volume of Polin, scholars from the fields of history, sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, literature, and folklore explore central themes in Jewish and European history. Launching what was to become a comprehensive and vigorous forum for discussion of all aspects of the Jewish …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3
The Jews of Warsaw
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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A central core of articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries covers the history of Jewish settlement; Jewish population in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early Partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 4
Poles and Jews: Perceptions and Misperceptions
Häftad, 2004
421 kr
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The theme of this rich and highly focused volume is Polish perceptions of Jews and Jewish perceptions of Poles from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays by Leszek Kolakowski and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski set the parameters of the debate. Contributors analyse sources ranging from Yiddish folk-songs …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 8
Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939
Av Antony Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Assimilation - were tested. There has been much …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 21
1968 Forty Years After
Av Leszek W. Gluchowski, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2008
528 kr
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In the mid-1960s, public opinion in Poland turned against the Gomulka regime for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to regain public support and divert attention from the real problems, Gomulka adopted an antisemitic stance. On 19 March 1968 he delivered a speech to party activists in which he …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 22
Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland
Av Adam Teller, Magda Teter m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
528 kr
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Boundaries—physical, political, social, religious, and cultural—were a key feature of life in medieval and early modern Poland, and this volume focuses on the ways in which these boundaries were respected, crossed, or otherwise negotiated. It throws new light on the contacts between Jews and Poles, …
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 23
Jews in Krakow
Av Michal Galas, Antony Polonsky
Häftad, 2010
434 kr
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Few Polish cities have evoked more affection from their Jewish inhabitants than Kraków, and this volume brings together the work of leading historians from Israel, Poland, Great Britain, and the United States to explore how this relationship evolved. It takes as its starting point 1772, when Poland …
