{"product_id":"polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-22-social-and-cultural-boundaries-in-pre-modern-poland-9781904113379","title":"Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 22: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoundaries—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, including the vexed question of conversion and the tensions it aroused. The collected articles also discuss relations between the various elements of Jewish society—the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, and the religious and the lay elites, considering too contacts between Jews in Poland and those in Germany and elsewhere. Classic studies by such eminent scholars as Meir Bałaban, Jacob Goldberg, and Moshe Rosman provide a foil for new research by Hanna Zaremska and David Frick, as well as Adam Teller, Magda Teter, Elisheva Carlebach, Jürgen Heyde, and Adam Kaźmierczyk. Taken together, the contributions on this central theme help redefine the Jewish history of pre-modern Poland.    As ever, the New Views section examines a wide variety of other topics. These include accusations of ritual murder in nineteenth-century Poland; the Russian Jewish integrationist politician Mikhail Morgulis; the attitude of Bolesław Prus towards Jewish assimilation and his relationship with the Jewish journalist Nahum Sokolow; women in the Mizrahi movement in Poland; Polish patriotism among Jews; the impact of the first Soviet occupation of 1939–41 on Polish–Jewish relations; how the war affected the views of Julian Tuwim and Antoni Słonimski; the shtetl in the work of American Jewish writers Allen Hoffman and Jonathan Safran Foer; and the initial Polish response to Jan Gross's Fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a notable contribution to the leading English-language series on Polish Jewry. It can serve as an ideal starting point for students interested in the development of Judaism in Eastern Europe in pre-modern Poland. The introduction by Teller and Teter offers an incisive picture of much of the historiography of of the period, while many of the articles offer both background and detailed pictures of specific institutions and events that are important for religious studies . . . Libraries with a serious collection dealing with Eastern European Jewish life and culture might want to consider the series in its entirety.' \u003cbr\u003eShaul Stampfer, \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Place NamesNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003ePart I   Structural and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland\u003cbr\u003eIntroductionADAM TELLER AND MAGDA TETER\u003cbr\u003eHugo Grotius and the Blood Libel Trials in Lublin, 1636MEIR BAŁABAN\u003cbr\u003eThe Boundaries of Memory: A Central European Chronograph from 1655ELISHEVA CARLEBACH\u003cbr\u003eThe Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside Poland–LithuaniaMOSHE ROSMAN\u003cbr\u003eTelling the Difference: Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews’ Legal Status in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman EmpireADAM TELLER\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Community in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthJACOB GOLDBERG\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Economic Elite in Red Ruthenia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesJÜRGEN HEYDE\u003cbr\u003eAcross the River: How and Why the Jews of Kraków Settled in Kazimierz at the End of the Fifteenth CenturyHANNA ZAREMSKA\u003cbr\u003eThe Rubinkowski Family, Converts in KazimierzADAM KAŹMIERCZYK\u003cbr\u003eJews in Public Places: Chapters in the Jewish–Christian Encounter in Seventeenth-Century VilnaDAVID FRICK\u003cbr\u003e‘There should be no love between us and them’: Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern PolandMAGDA TETER\u003cbr\u003ePart II   New Views\u003cbr\u003eBlood and the Hasidim: On the History of Ritual Murder Accusations in Nineteenth-Century PolandMARCIN WODZIŃSKI\u003cbr\u003eIntegration and its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in RussiaBRIAN HOROWITZ\u003cbr\u003eBolesław Prus and the Assimilation of Polish JewsAGNIESZKA FRIEDRICH \u003cbr\u003eDialogue  or Monologue? The Relationship Between Jewish and Polish Journalists in Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyELA BAUER\u003cbr\u003eGender, Zionism, and Orthodoxy: The Women of the Mizrahi Movement in Poland, 1916–1939ASAF KANIEL\u003cbr\u003ePatriotism and Antisemitism: The Crisis of Polish Jewish Identity between the WarsDAVID ABERBACH\u003cbr\u003eThe Nazi Murder of the Jews in Polish Eyes: Views in the Underground Press, 1942–1945KLAUS-PETER FRIEDRICH\u003cbr\u003eThe Spring that Passed: The Pikador Poets’ Return to JewishnessMARCI SHORE \u003cbr\u003eResisting a Phantom Book: A Critical Assessment of the Initial Polish Discussion of Jan Gross’s FearMONIKA RICE\u003cbr\u003eImagined Diaspora: The Shtetl in Allen Hoffman’s Small Worlds and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is IlluminatedJEREMY SHERE\u003cbr\u003eObituaries\u003cbr\u003eJohn Klier\u003cbr\u003eGlossaryNotes on the ContributorsIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151370023255,"sku":"9781904113379","price":29.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781904113379.jpg?v=1762960973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-22-social-and-cultural-boundaries-in-pre-modern-poland-9781904113379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}