Description
Book SynopsisA 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; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the First World War; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Warsaw Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the Holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.
Table of ContentsStatement from the Editors
Jews in Warsaw
Emanuel Ringelbaum, the Chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto ISRAEL GUTMAN
The Undefined Town within a Town: A History of Jewish Settlement in the Western Districts of Warsaw PETER J. MARTYN
The Jewish Population in Warsaw at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ARTUR EISENBACH
‘The Jews have Killed a Tailor’: The Socio-Political Background of a Pogrom in Warsaw in 1790 KRYSTYNA ZIENKOWSKA
The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1862 STEFAN KIENIEWICZ
Aspects of Population Change and of Acculturation in Jewish Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Censuses of 1882 and 1987 STEPHEN D. CORRSIN
Aspects of the History Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre CHONE SHMERUK
Jewish Warsaw before the First World War PIOTR WROBEL
The History of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO
Articles The Socio-Cultural Integration of the Jewish Population in the Province of Radom, 1815-1862 ADAM PENKALLA
The Religious Orders and the Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland JERZY KLOCZOWSKI
The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women’s Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945 EWA KUREK-LESIK
Document
Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Talks with Representatives of the Polish Government JERZY TOMASZEWSKI
Commentary
On Immoral Reason and Illogical Morality ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Reports International Conference on Polish Jews in Jerusalem ANTONY POLONSKY
Catalogue of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland ADAM PENKALLA
Reviews
REVIEW ESSAYS
Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century ANDRZEJ POPPE
The Polish Borderlands and Nationality Problems HENRY ROLLET
BOOK REVIEWS
Letter to the Editors
Contributors
Obituaries
