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Polin:
Studies in Polish Jewry
Volume 11: Aspects and Experiences of Religion
Author Information - Contributors - Contents - Publication Details
The
eleven core essays in this volume consider aspects of hasidism and the
mitnagdic tradition; the impact of Haskalah and Reform; liturgical and
social characteristics of the more modern synagogues in Warsaw, Lódz,
and Lwów; Hillel Zeitlin's response to Zionism and modern philosophy;
and present-day contacts of Bobower hasidim with Bobowa in Poland. The
New Views section covers eleven other areas of Polish-Jewish studies,
and there is an extensive Book Review section.
Antony Polonsky is the first holder of the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, a joint appointment held in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
Shraga
Bar Sella, teacher and researcher, Oranim, University of Haifa
Adam Bartosz, Director of Museums, Tarnów
Robert Braun, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Budapest University
of Economic Sciences
Michael Burleigh, Distinguished Research Professor of History,
University of Wales, Cardiff
Julian J. Bussgang
Kimmy Caplan, Harvard University
Anna Clarke
Alexander Guterman
Louis Jacobs, Founding Rabbi, New London Synagogue; Visiting Professor,
University College London
Anna Landau-Czajka, Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
Józef Lewandowski, formerly Professor of History, University of
Uppsala
Shaul Magid, Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary,
New York
Alina Margolis-Edelman, paediatrician
Harry Rabinowicz, London
Shimon Redlich, Professor of Modern History, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Ira Robinson, Professor of Judaic Studies and Chair, Department
of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal
Shaul Stampfer, Lecturer in Jewish History, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Krzysztof Stefanski, Institute for the History of Art, University
of Lódz; Institute of Architecture and City Planning, Technical High School,
Lódz
Janusz Tazbir, Professor, Historical Institute, Polish Academy
of Sciences
Jerzy Tomaszewski, Professor, Institute of Political Science, and
Head, Mordecai Anieliewicz Research Centre on the History of the Jews
in Poland, University of Warsaw
Bernard Wasserstein, formerly President, Oxford Centre for Hebrew
and Jewish Studies
Józef Wróbel, Institute of Polish Philology, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków
| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 466 pages, 8 photographs |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-34-1 |
| Price | £21.95 / $34.95 |
| Date of publication | 1998 |
Author Information - Contributors - Contents - Publication Details
© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008