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Polin:  From Shtetl to SocialismFrom Shtetl to Socialism
Studies from Polin

Edited by Antony Polonsky

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read more about this book'A fascinating history . . . a summary of a decade of scholarship.'
European Judaism

'Antony Polonsky's monumental collection of studies covers the ten centuries of Jewish life in Poland . . . written by acknowledged scholars . . . The spectrum is broad . . . One can only express admiration for the editor and the institutions concerned for this effort to enlighten us and future generations.'
Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post

A selection of articles, originally published in volumes 1-7 of Polin, on many aspects of the history of the Jews of Poland from the earliest settlement to the Second World War, with an extensive new introduction, a chronology, maps, and an index.

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

read more about this bookMonika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Israel Bartal, David Biale, Eugene C. Black, Jan Blonski, Norman Davies, David Engel, Jacob Goldberg, Gershon David Hundert, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Pawel Korzec, Ewa Kurek-Lesik, Magdalena Opalski, Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Eugenia Prokopowna, Laura Quercioli-Mincer, M. J. Rosman, Szymon Rudnicki, Pawel Samus, Robert Moses Shapiro, Chone Shmeruk, Shaul Stampfer, Michael C. Steinlauf, Pawel Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Paul Wexler, Anna Zuk

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Format

23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9"

Pages 616 pages, 16 pages plates, 10 maps, 2 tables, paperback
ISBN 978-1-874774-14-3
Price £16.95 / $24.95
Date of publication 1993

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