Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 3
The Jews of Warsaw
The theme of this rich and highly focused volume is Polish perceptions of Jews and Jewish perceptions of Poles from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays by Leszek Kolakowski and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski set the parameters of the debate. Contributors analyse sources ranging from Yiddish folk-songs to Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish literature to Polish plays, and the discussions range over the entire period. Norman Davies writes on ethnic diversity in twentieth-century Poland, and other essays deal with related political aspects. There is also an important exchange between Stanislaus Blejwas and Shmuel Krakowski entitled ‘Polemic as History'.
About the editors
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.
Contributors
Gershon C. Bacon, Israel Bartal, Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, Stanislaus A. Blejwas, Andrzej Bryk, Michael Burleigh, Andrzej Chojnowski, Norman Davies, David Engel, M. R. D. Foot, Frank Golczewski, Adam Hetnal, Julian Ilicki, Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Leszek Kolakowski, Pawel Korzec, Shmuel Krakowski. Jack Kugelmass, Anna Landau-Czajka, Sergiusz Michalski, Magdalena Opalski, Antony Polonsky, Eugenia Prokopówna, Peter Pulzer, Anna Radziwill, Alexandra Reiche, Murray J. Rosman, Michael C. Steinlauf, Jerzy Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Nechama Tec, Chava Turniansky, Roman Zimand
Publication details
| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 508 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-904113-18-8 paperback |
| Price | £21.95 / $34.95 |
| Date of publication | August 2004 paperback |
Contents
Statement 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
