Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8
Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939
Edited by Antony Polonsky, Ezra Mendelsohn and Jerzy Tomaszewsk

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'Contains too many riches for a brief review to do them justice ... It is instructive to see how the subject of antisemitism is reflected in the pages of this volume, especially because of the number of the contributions by Polish scholars, some of them young, to a field that only a few years ago was virtually taboo in Poland.'
Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement

In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of three million was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world—Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, assimilation—were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of antisemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which it aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America that together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which have in the past proved so divisive. It also includes a number of personal testimonies from people who experienced the interwar period at first hand.

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.

Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor in the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry, and the Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerzy Tomaszewski is Professor of History in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the Mordecai Anieliewicz Center for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews

CONTRIBUTORS

Franciszek Adamski, Professor of Sociology, and Chair of the Department of Social Pedagogy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Stanislaus A. Blejwas, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University
Szyja Bronsztejn, Professor of Statistics, University of Wroclaw
Alina Cala, Director of Research, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
David Engel, Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University
B. Garncarska-Kadary, Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University
Jerzy Holzer, Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Karol Jonca, Chair, Department of Political and Legal Thought, Faculty of Law, University of Wroclaw
Zbigniew Landau, Head, Department of Economic and Social History, Warsaw School of Economics
Anna Landau-Czajka, Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Mark Levene, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Warwick
Ezra Mendelsohn, Professor, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry, and Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Andrzej Paczkowski, Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Rafael F. Scharf, Founder, Institute for Polish—Jewish Studies, Oxford
Robert Moses Shapiro, Yeshiva University
Dariusz Stola, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Jerzy Tomaszewski, Professor, Institute of Political Science, and Director, Mordecai Anieliewicz Center for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews, University of Warsaw
Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk
Alfred Wislicki

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