Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 7
Edited by Antony Polonsky

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Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered in other articles include the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer, entitled 'From the Ghetto to Modern Culture'; Jan Czynski and the question of equal rights for all religious faiths; education of Jewish women in the nineteenth century; ritual slaughter as a political issue; and the Jewish press in Kraków in the inter-war years.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

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

Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds
Czeslaw Brzoza, Associate Professor, Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Rutgers University
Anna Clarke, Carleton University and Algonquin College
Adam Galkowski, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Jan Marek Gronski, playwright and screenplay writer
Dora Katzenelson, Drohobycz, Ukraine
Mark W. Kiel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary
Ariel Joseph Kochavi, Lecturer in History, University of Haifa
Jerzy Lewinski
Zenon Nowak, Professor of History, Mikolaj Kopernik University, Torun
Laura Quercioli, Rome
Richie Robertson, University Lecturer in German, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
Marek Rudnicki, graphic artist and painter, Paris
Szymon Rudnicki, Professor of History, University of Warsaw
Shaul Stampfer, Lecturer, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aharon Weiss, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, University of Haifa
Tomasz Wisniewski, writer on Jewish topics
Jósef Wróbel, Lecturer, Institute of Polish Philology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Aleksander Zyga, freelance writer

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