{"product_id":"polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-29-writing-jewish-history-in-eastern-europe-9781906764487","title":"Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 29: Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistoriography formed an unusually important component of the popular culture and heritage of east European Jewry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of social, economic, and political upheaval, and for the emerging class of educated Jews the writing and reading of Jewish history provided not only intellectual but also emotional and moral sustenance. Facing an insecure future became easier with an understanding of the past, and of the Jewish place in that past.  This volume is devoted to the development of Jewish historiography in the three east European centres—Congress Poland, the Russian empire, and Galicia—that together contained the majority of world Jewry at that time. Drawing widely on the multilingual body of scholarly and popular literature that emerged in that turbulent environment, the contributors to this volume attempt to go beyond the established paradigms in the study of Jewish historiography, and specifically to examine the relationship between the writing of Jewish history and of non-Jewish history in eastern Europe. In doing so they expose the tension between the study of the Jewish past in a communal setting and in a wider, regional, setting that located Jews firmly in the non-Jewish political, economic, and cultural environment. They also explore the relationship between ‘history’—seen as the popular understanding of the past—and ‘scholarly history’—interpretation of the past through the academic study of the sources, which lays claim to objectivity and authority.   The development of Jewish historical scholarship grew out of the new intellectual climate of the Haskalah, which encouraged novel modes of thinking about self and others and promoted critical enquiry and new approaches to traditional sources. At the same time, however, in response to what the traditionalists perceived as secular research, an Orthodox historiography also emerged, driven not only by scholarly curiosity but also by the need to provide a powerful counterweight in the struggle against modernity. In fact, east European Jewish historiography has undergone many methodological, thematic, and ideological transformations over the last two centuries. Even today, east European Jewish historiography revisits many of the questions of importance to scholars and audiences since its emergence: how Jews lived, both within the narrow Jewish world and in contact with the wider society; the limits of Jewish insularity and integration; expressions of persecution and anti-Jewish violence; and also Jewish contributions to the societies and states of eastern Europe. Many challenges still remain: questions of the purpose of the research, its ideological colouring, and its relevance for contemporary Jewish communities.  The fruit of research in many disciplines and from different methodological points of view, this volume has much to offer scholars of modern Jewry trying to understand how east European Jews saw themselves as they struggled with the concepts of modernity and national identity and how their history continues to be studied and discussed by an international community of scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Place Names\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e BRIAN HOROWITZ AND NATALIA ALEKSIUN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: WRITING EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH HISTORY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ePinkas\u003c\/i\u003e: From Communal Archive to Total History\u003cbr\u003e ISRAEL BARTAL\u003cbr\u003e‘Constructing the shrine of our people’s history’: \u003ci\u003eHatsefirah\u003c\/i\u003e and the Historiography of Polish Jewry\u003cbr\u003e ELA BAUER\u003cbr\u003e‘Building a fragile edifice’: A History of Russian Jewish Historical Institution, 1860–1914\u003cbr\u003e BRIAN HOROWITZ\u003cbr\u003eConstructing Polish Jewry’s ‘Shrine of History’: Galician Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e RACHEL MANEKIN\u003cbr\u003eCharting the Outer Provinces of Jewry: The Study of East European Jewry’s Margins\u003cbr\u003e NATAN MEIR\u003cbr\u003eDubnov’s Wayward Son: Israel Sosis and the Legacy of Russian Jewish Historiography\u003cbr\u003e ELISSA BEMPORAD\u003cbr\u003eThe Historiography of the Bund\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL KASSOW\u003cbr\u003eScholars of Jewish Origin in the Community of Historians in Lwów, 1918–1939\u003cbr\u003e JOANNA PISULIŃSKA\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons: Art Collection and Display as Historical Practice in Interwar Lwów\u003cbr\u003e SARAH ZARROW\u003cbr\u003eBroken Traditions? The Jewish Presence on the City Councils of Kraków, Poznań, and Warsaw, 1919–1939\u003cbr\u003e HANNA KOZIŃSKA-WITT\u003cbr\u003eFemale, Jewish, Educated, and Writing Polish Jewish History\u003cbr\u003e NATALIA ALEKSIUN\u003cbr\u003eJewish Historiography of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e HAVI DREIFUSS\u003cbr\u003eConversion in the Work of Jakub Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e STEFAN GĄSIORSKI\u003cbr\u003eDenying Tradition: Academic Historiography on Jewish Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e VLADIMIR LEVIN\u003cbr\u003eJewish Traditionalism in Eastern Europe: The Historiographical Gadfly\u003cbr\u003e GLENN DYNNER\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Ghetto? Historiography on Jewish Women in Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e ELIYANA R. ADLER\u003cbr\u003eProblems in the Study of Russian Jewish Literature\u003cbr\u003e LEONID F. KATSIS\u003cbr\u003eThe Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw: A New Approach to the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands\u003cbr\u003e ANTONY POLONSKY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: DOCUMENTARY SECTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of Lost Times and Places: Simon Rawidowicz Reflects on his Formative Years in Grajewo and Białystok\u003cbr\u003e BENJAMIN RAVID\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: NEW VIEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened to Tarnów's Jews?\u003cbr\u003e ADAM BARTOSZ\u003cbr\u003eDoes ‘Polish Antisemitism’ Exist? Research in Poland and Ukraine, 1992 and 2002\u003cbr\u003e IRENEUSZ KRZEMIŃSKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: OBITUARIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrzej Garlicki\u003cbr\u003e SZYMON RUDNICKI\u003cbr\u003eJerzy Kulczycki\u003cbr\u003e JAREK GARLIŃSKI\u003cbr\u003eIsrael Gutman\u003cbr\u003e ANTONY POLONSKY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470274203991,"sku":"9781906764487","price":29.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781906764487.jpg?v=1744897858","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/polin-studies-in-polish-jewry-volume-29-writing-jewish-history-in-eastern-europe-9781906764487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}