Note on Place Names
Note on Transliteration
Part I Jews in Polish Small Towns
Introduction. The Shtetl: Myth and Reality
ANTONY POLONSKY
The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish–Jewish Integration in the Eighteenth
Century
ADAM TELLER
Inter-Religious Contacts in the Shtetl: Proposals for Future Research
MICHAL GALAS
The Hasidic Conquest of Small-Town Central Poland, 1754–1818
GLENN DYNNER
The Drama of Berdichev: Levy Yitshak and his Town
YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN
Polish Shtetls under Russian Rule, 1772–1914
JOHN KLIER
How Jewish was the Shtetl?
BEN-CION PINCHUK
The Changing Shtetl in the Kingdom of Poland during the First World War
KONRAD ZIELINSKI
The Shtetl: Cultural Evolution in Small Jewish Towns
ALINA CALA
Polish Jewish Country Towns in Inter-War Poland
REGINA RENZ
Jewish Patrons and Polish Clients: Patronage in a Small Galician Town
ROSA LEHMANN
Maintaining Borders, Crossing Borders: Social Relationships and the Shtetl
ANNAMARIA ORLA-BUKOWSKA
The Soviet Shtetl in the 1920s
GENNADY ESTRAIKH
Shtetl and Shtot in Yiddish Haskalah Drama
JOEL BERKOWITZ
Kazimierz on the Vistula: Polish Literary Portrayals of the Shtetl
EUGENIA PROKÓP-JANIEC
Imagining the Image: Interpretations of the Shtetl in Jewish Literary Criticism
from Bal Makhshoves to Dan Miron
MIKHAIL KRUTIKOV
Shtetl Codes: Fantastic Elements in the Fiction of Sholem Asch, Bruno Schulz,
and Isaac Bashevis Singer
KATARZYNA WIECLAWSKA
Returning to the Shtetl: Different Perceptions
SHIMON REDLICH
Part II New Views
A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda’s Polish Question
BRIAN HOROWITZ
Like a Voice Calling in the Wilderness: The Correspondence of Wolf Lewkowicz
MIROSLAW WÓCIK
Jewish Prisoner Labour in Warsaw after the Ghetto Uprising, 1943–1944
GABRIEL N. FINDER
The Gesiowka Story: A Little-Known Page of Jewish Resistance
EDWARD KOSSOY
Part III Documents
Gomulka Writes to Stalin in 1948
Introduction
LECH W. GLUCHOWSKI
Document 1: Wladyslaw Gomulka’s Letter to Stalin
Document 2: Cryptogram from Stalin to Boleslaw Bierut
Part IV The Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of Events in Przytyk: A Debate
If Not a Pogrom, Then What?
JOLANTA ZYNDUL
Pogrom? The Polish–Jewish Incidents in Przytyk, 9 March 1936
PIOTR GONTARCZYK
It was No Ordinary Fight
JOLANTA ZYNDUL
Letter from Ryszard Fenigsen
Przytyk and the Market Stall
KSAWERY PRUSZYNSKI
Part V
Book Reviews
Notes on the Contributors
Glossary
Index