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Wodzinski coverHaskalah and Hasidism in the
Kingdom of Poland

A History of Conflict
Marcin Wodzinski
Translated from the Polish by Sarah Cozens with Agnieska Mirowska

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read more about this bookThe conflict between Haskalah and hasidism shaped the world of Polish Jewry for almost two centuries. This award-winning study, a synthesis that offers both breadth and depth, is based on source materials in Polish and five other languages. Its subject matter is successfully contextualized within the broader domains of the European Enlightenment and Polish culture, tsarist policy and Polish history, hasidism and rabbinic culture, as well as the ins and outs of the Haskalah itself.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Marcin Wodzinski is Director of the Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews, and of the Department of Jewish Studies, of the University of Wroclaw. His special fields of interest are the social history of the Jews in nineteenth-century Poland, the regional history of the Jews in Silesia, and Jewish sepulchral art. He is the author of several books, articles, and reports, the co-editor of Jews in Silesia, and co-editor of the bi-annual scholarly periodical Studia Judaica and the Bibliotheca Judaica series.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Format

23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9"

Pages 350 pages; 3 maps, 9 text figures, 1 table
ISBN 978-1-904113-08-9
978-1-906764-02-9 paperback
Price £39.50 / $59.50
£18.95 / $29.95 paperback
Date of publication 28 July 2005
July 2009 paperback

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