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Book SynopsisAddressing 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 to the very different conditions of the United States. The modifications of Jewish religious tradition practiced in the modern pre-war synagogues in Warsaw, L dz, and Lw w are considered, as is the attempt by Hillel Zeitlyn to re-interpret Jewish tradition in the interwar years.
Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration , Names, and Place-Names Introduction ANTONY POLONSKY Part I On Religion: Aspects and Experiences Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-war Poland SHAUL STAMPFER Tobacco and the Hasidim LOUIS JACOBS 'A Thread of Blue': Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyn and his Search for Continuity in Response to Modernity SHAUL MAGID The Tarler rebbe of Lodz and his Medical Practice: Towards a History of Hasidic Life in Pre-First World War Poland IRA ROBINSON Aaron Menaham Mendel Guterman, the rebbe of Radzymin HARRY RABINOWICZ A Pilgrimage from Bobowa to Bobowa DAM BARTOSZ On the Brink of Disaster: Hillel Zeitlin's Struggle for Jewish Survival in Poland SHRAGA BAR SELLA Ala from the Primer ALINA MARGOLIS-EDELMAN The Congregation of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw: Its Changing Social Composition and Ideological Affiliations ALEXANDER GUTERMAN The Progressive Synagogue in Lwow JULIAN J. BUSSGANG The Synagogues of Lodz KRZYSZTOF STEFANSKI Part II New Views Conspiracy Theories and the Reception of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Poland JANUSZ TAZBIR Polish Influences on British Policy regarding Jewish Rescue Efforts in Poland, 1939-1945 BERNARD WASSERSTEIN The Concerns of an Immigrant Rabbi: The Life and Sermons of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz KIMMY CAPLAN Trunk's Poyln: Its Place in Jewish-Polish History ANNA CLARKE Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Inter-War Poland as reflected in Some Ukrainian Publications SHIMON REDLICH Jewish Martyrdom in the Works of Adolf Rudnicki JOZEF WROBEL The Jewish Question in Poland: Views Expressed in the Catholic Press between the Two World Wars ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA Part III Book Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS History, Experience, and Democracy. Istvan Bibo Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944-Fifty Years Later ROBERT BRAUN The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust MICHAEL BURLEIGH Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians JERZY TOMASZEWSKI A New Account of the 'March Events' JOZEF LEWANDOWSKI BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH JEWISH STUDIES, 1995
