Warsaw: The Jewish metropolis : Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky /
Warsaw: The Jewish metropolis : Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky /
Jewish metropolis
edited by Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 624 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 15 .
- IJS Studies in Judaica 15. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2015-II, ISBN: 9789004287426. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792 / 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820) / 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization / 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe / 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880 / 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi / 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914 / 8 In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe / 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–12 / 10 “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture / 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War / 12 The Capital of “Yiddishland”? / 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris / 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period / 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry / 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw / 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940–1943 / 18 “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust / 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach / 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944–1949 / 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews / 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust / 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents / 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed / 25 “Context is Everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky / Name Index. Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet -- Hanna Węgrzynek -- Cornelia Aust -- Ela Bauer -- Glenn Dynner -- François Guesnet -- Shaul Stampfer -- Nathan Cohen -- Scott Ury -- Michael C. Steinlauf -- Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov -- Robert Blobaum -- Kalman Weiser -- Gennady Estraikh -- Gershon Bacon -- Natalia Aleksiun -- Kenneth B. Moss -- Joshua D. Zimmerman -- Havi Dreifuss -- Samuel Kassow -- Joanna B. Michlic -- Gabriel N. Finder -- David Engel -- Karen Auerbach -- Marci Shore -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. This book is also available in paperback .
9789004291812
10.1163/9789004291812 DOI
2015005127
Jews--History.--Poland--Warsaw
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Jews--Economic conditions.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Jews--Social conditions.
Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
Poland--Warsaw.
History.
DS134.64 / .W36 2015
305.892/4043841
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792 / 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820) / 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization / 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe / 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880 / 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi / 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914 / 8 In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe / 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–12 / 10 “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture / 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War / 12 The Capital of “Yiddishland”? / 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris / 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period / 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry / 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw / 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940–1943 / 18 “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust / 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach / 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944–1949 / 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews / 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust / 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents / 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed / 25 “Context is Everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky / Name Index. Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet -- Hanna Węgrzynek -- Cornelia Aust -- Ela Bauer -- Glenn Dynner -- François Guesnet -- Shaul Stampfer -- Nathan Cohen -- Scott Ury -- Michael C. Steinlauf -- Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov -- Robert Blobaum -- Kalman Weiser -- Gennady Estraikh -- Gershon Bacon -- Natalia Aleksiun -- Kenneth B. Moss -- Joshua D. Zimmerman -- Havi Dreifuss -- Samuel Kassow -- Joanna B. Michlic -- Gabriel N. Finder -- David Engel -- Karen Auerbach -- Marci Shore -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. This book is also available in paperback .
9789004291812
10.1163/9789004291812 DOI
2015005127
Jews--History.--Poland--Warsaw
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Jews--Economic conditions.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Jews--Social conditions.
Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
Poland--Warsaw.
History.
DS134.64 / .W36 2015
305.892/4043841