Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Volume 16: Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife
Edited by Michael C. Steinlauf and Antony Polonsky

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Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature. Even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of ‘great works’. This special issue on Jewish popular culture focuses on relatively less explored but historically vital forms of culture that have previously been relegated to the margins of scholarly interest. Most of the articles look at the period before the Second World War, but there are also several studies of the traces of this culture in the contemporary world. The volume is intended to help reconfigure our understanding of Polish Jewish civilization in its true richness and variety.

EDITOR INFORMATION

Michael C. Steinlauf is Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania.
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.

CONTRIBUTOR INFORMATION

Michael Aylward, translator and discographer
Natan Cohen, Bar-Ilan University; associate editor, Yad Vashem Studies
Walter Zev Feldman, researcher in Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and the literature of the Ottoman and central Asian Turks
Nathan Gross, film director, writer, poet, translator and journalist
Ruth Ellen Gruber, author and journalist
François Guesnet, Associate Fellow, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, University of Leipzig
Ellen Kellman, Lecturer in Yiddish, Brandeis University
Ariela Krasney, researcher in Jewish popular literature and folklore
Anna Landau-Czajka, Docent, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
Erica Lehrer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, and Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
Yaakov Mazor, musicologist; Research Associate, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
Barbara Milewski, researcher in music of the Nazi concentration camps
Andrzej Paczkowski, Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Brian Porter, Associate Professor of History and Director of Polish Studies, University of Michigan
Edward Portnoy, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Alexander B. Rossino, Research Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, writer on Jews in communist Poland
Shalom Sabar, Professor of Jewish Art and Material Culture, and Chair, Departmernt of Jewish and Comparative Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jeffrey Shandler, Assistant Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
Joshua Shanes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael C. Steinlauf, Associate Professor of History, Gratz College
Andrzej Trzcinski, Lecturer, Department of Arts, Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin
Bret Werb, music specialist, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Marcin Wodzinski, Chair, Research Centre for the Culture and Languages of Polish Jews, University of Wroclaw
Seth L. Wolitz, Gale Family Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Gwido Zlatkes, Tozzer Library, Harvard University

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