Warsaw. the Jewish metropolis : essays in honor of the 75th birthday of professor Antony Polonsky

Warsaw. the Jewish metropolis : essays in honor of the 75th birthday of professor Antony Polonsky / edited by Glenn Dynner and Francois Guesnet.

Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from...

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Other Authors: Dynner, Glenn, 1969- (Editor), Guesnet, François (Editor), Polonsky, Antony (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2015.
Series:IJS studies in Judaica.
Subjects:
Jews > Poland > Warsaw > History.
Jews > Poland > Warsaw > Social conditions.
Jews > Poland > Warsaw > Economic conditions.
Jews > Poland > Warsaw > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews > Economic conditions
Jews > Intellectual life
Jews > Social conditions
Warsaw (Poland) > Ethnic relations.
Poland > Warsaw
Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis; Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792; Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820); Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization; Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe; Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880.
  • Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier RabbiChapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914; Chapter 8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe; Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905-12; Chapter 10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe": Study for a Group Picture; Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War; Chapter 12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"?
  • Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and ParisChapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period; Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry; Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw; Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath; Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943.
  • Chapter 18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the HolocaustChapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach; Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949; Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews; Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.
  • Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its ResidentsChapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed; Chapter 25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky; Name Index.

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