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Title From shtetl to socialism : studies from Polin / edited by Antony Polonsky
Published London ; Washington : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993

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Description xxxiii, 581 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Contents The reconstruction of pre-Ashkenazic Jewish settlements in the Slavic lands in the light of linguistic sources / Paul Wexler -- Some basic characteristics of the Jewish experience in Poland / Gershon David Hundert -- Images of the Jew in the Polish Commonwealth / Janusz Tazbir -- A minority views the majority : Jewish attitudes towards the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and interaction with Poles / M. J. Rosman -- The changes in the attitude of Polish society toward the Jews in the eighteenth century / Jacob Goldberg -- A mobile class. The subjective element in the social perception of Jews : the example of eighteenth-century Poland / Anna Żuk -- The Jews of Warsaw, Polish society, and the partitioning powers, 1795-1861 / Stefan Kieniewicz -- The Jewish community in the political life of Łódź in the years 1865-1914 / Paweł Samuś -- Aspects of the history of Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre / Chone Shmeruk -- Non-Jews and gentile society in East European Hebrew and Yiddish literature 1856-1914 / Israel Bartal -- Trends in the literary perception of Jews in modern Polish fiction / Magdalena Opalski -- Eros and enlightenment : love against marriage in the East European Jewish enlightenment / David Biale -- Gender differentiation and education of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer -- Polish synagogues in the nineteenth century / Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka -- Ethnic diversity in twentieth-century Poland / Norman Davies -- Some methodological problems of the study of Jewish history in Poland between the two World Wars / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Lucien Wolf and the making of Poland : Paris, 1919 / Eugene C. Black -- Aspects of Jewish self-government in Łódź, 1914-1939 / Robert Moses Shapiro -- The image of the Shtetl in Polish literature / Eugenia Prokopówna -- The Polish Jewish daily press / Michael C. Steinlauf -- From 'numerus clausus' to 'numerus nullus' / Szymon Rudnicki -- Jews and Poles under Soviet occupation (1939-1941) : conflicting interests / Pawel Korzec and Jean-Charles Szurek -- The Western allies and the Holocaust / David Engel -- The conditions of admittance and the social background of Jewish children saved by women's religious orders in Poland, 1939-1945 / Ewa Kurek-Lesik -- The contexts of the so-called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II / Krystyna Kersten and Paweł Szapiro -- Is there a Jewish school of Polish literature? / Jan Błoński -- A voice from the Diaspora : Julian Stryjkowski / Laura Quercioli-Mincer -- Poles and Poland in I. B. Singer's fiction / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Analysis Jews History
Poland
Notes "Published for the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies, Oxford, an associate centre of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jews -- Poland -- Civilization.
Jews -- Poland -- History.
SUBJECT Poland -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110233
Author Polonsky, Antony.
Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England)
Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.
LC no. 93029009
ISBN 1874774145 (acid-free paper)
OTHER TI Polin