{"product_id":"studies-from-polin-from-shtetl-to-socialism-9781874774143","title":"Studies from Polin: From Shtetl to Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and secular-was profound. An understanding of the history of the Jews of Poland is thus essential to a proper understanding of Jewish history. This book, comprising a selection of studies drawn from the first seven volumes of Polin, provides that understanding. Written by scholars from Europe (including Poland itself), Israel, and North America, it illuminates the most critical aspects of the history of the Jews in Poland and illustrates how these issues are being treated by the leading and most innovative scholars in the field. A broad spectrum of subjects is discussed, covering the origins and development of the community and the many crises it experienced from the earliest date of Jewish settlement in Poland to the establishment of Communist rule in postwar Poland. Maps and a chronology of Polish Jewish history are also provided, and the book is prefaced by an extensive introduction by Antony Polonsky, general editor of Polin. \u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS: Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Israel Bartal, David Biale, Eugene C. Black, Jan Blonski, Norman Davies, David Engel, Jacob Goldberg, Gershon David Hundert, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Pawel Korzec, Ewa Kurek-Lesik, Magdalena Opalski, Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Eugenia Prokopowna, Laura Quercioli-Mincer, M. J. Rosman, Szymon Rudnicki, Pawel Samus, Robert Moses Shapiro, Chone Shmeruk, Shaul Stampfer, Michael C. Steinlauf, Pawel Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Paul Wexler, Anna Zuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An outstanding history of Jewish life in Poland ... The introduction and sensitive editing by Antony Polonsky give us an insight into scholarship covering a fascinating history and the basic problems of Jewish life which are not only the mark of Polish\/Jewish history but become paradigmatic of all the Jewish life ... brings together the writings of those scholars who have specialized in Polish history and have total command of both Yiddish and Polish, but are also aware of other scholars and their contributions ... becomes a summary of a decade of scholarship, and is also an introduction for what should be more than a decade of future work ... This first volume should be followed by other texts which will help us to gain wisdom and understanding-the central purpose of the Littman Library, which must be congratulated for this new venture.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Antony Polonsky’s monumental collection of studies cover the ten centuries of Jewish life in Poland . . . written by acknowledged scholars . . . The spectrum is broad . . . One can only express admiration for the editor and the institutions concerned for this effort to enlighten us and future generations about some aspects of Jewish existence in a land where, practically speaking, Jews live no more.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘. . . to be welcomed.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarry Rabinowicz, Le’ela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of maps  Introduction    Part I  Pre-Partition Poland (to 1795)  The Reconstruction of Pre-Ashkenazic Jewish Settlements in the Slavic Lands in the Light of Linguistic Sources   PAUL WEXLER  Some Basic Characteristics of the Jewish Experience in Poland   GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT  Images of the Jew in the Polish Commonwealth   JANUSZ TAZBIR  A Minority Views the Majority: Jewish Attitudes towards the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Interaction with Poles   M. J. ROSMAN  The Changes in the Attitude of Polish Society toward the Jews in the Eighteenth Century   JACOB GOLDBERG  A Mobile Class: The Subjective Element in the Social Perception of Jews-The Example of Eighteenth-Century Poland   ANNA ZUK    Part II  The Nineteenth Century  The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1861       STEFAN KIENIEWICZ  The Jewish Community in the Political Life of Lodz in the Years 1865-1914   PAWEL SAMUS  Aspects of the History of Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre   CHONE SHMERUK  Non-Jews and Gentile Society in East European Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, 1856-1914   ISRAEL BARTAL  Trends in the Literary Perception of Jews in Modern Polish Fiction   MAGDALENA OPALSKI  Eros and Enlightenment: Love against Marriage in the East European Jewish Enlightenment   DAVID BIALE  Gender Differentiation and Education of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe   SHAUL STAMPFER  Polish Synagogues in the Nineteenth Century   MARIA and KAZIMIERZ PIECHOTKA    Part III  Between the Two World Wars Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Poland   NORMAN DAVIES  Some Methodological Problems of the Study of Jewish History in Poland between  the Two World Wars   JERZY TOMASZEWSKI  Lucien Wolf and the Making of Poland: Paris, 1919   EUGENE C. BLACK  Aspects of Jewish Self-Government in Lodz, 1914-1939   ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO  The Image of the Shtetl in Polish Literature   EUGENIA PROKOPOWNA  The Polish Jewish Daily Press   MICHAEL C. STEINLAUF From 'Numerus Clausus' to 'Numerus Nullus'   SZYMON RUDNICKI    Part IV  The Second World War  Jews and Poles under Soviet Occupation (1939-1941): Conflicting Interests   PAWEL     KORZEC and JEAN-CHARLES SZUREK  The Western Allies and the Holocaust   DAVID ENGEL  The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women's Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945   EWA KUREK-LESIK    Part V  After 1945  The Contexts of the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II       KRYSTYNA KERSTEN and PAWEL SZAPIRO  Is There a Jewish School of Polish Literature?   JAN BLONSKI  A Voice from the Diaspora: Julian Stryjkowski   LAURA QUERCIOLI-MINCER  Poles and Poland in I. B. Singer's Fiction   MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA   Notes on Contributors  Chronological Table  Maps  Glossary  Index","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151369007447,"sku":"9781874774143","price":28.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781874774143.jpg?v=1762960969","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-from-polin-from-shtetl-to-socialism-9781874774143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}