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Author Steinlauf, Michael C

Title Polin : Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife
Published London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (621 pages)
Series Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser. ; v. 16
Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Editors and Advisers; Preface; Polin; Contents; Note on Place Names; Note on Transliteration; Part I: Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and its Afterlife; Introduction; In Pre-War Poland: The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk; Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870-1940; Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland; Jewish Theatre in Poland; A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg's Di khevre-kedishe sude; Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song; Simkhe Plakhte: From 'Folklore' to Literary Artefact
Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth CenturyPapers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia; Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland; Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland; Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press; Afterlife From 'Madagaskar' to Sachsenhausen: Singing about 'Race' in a Nazi Camp
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical ObservationsTransmigrations: Wolf Krakowski's Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context; 'The Time of Vishniac': Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts; Repopulating Jewish Poland-in Wood; The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival; Part II: Documents; A. Litvin: Chronicler of Jewish Souls; Excerpts from Yidishe neshomes; Urke Nachalnik: A Voice from the Underworld; Excerpts from Zyciorys wlasny przestepcy; Part III: New Views
Making a Space for Antisemitism: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the Early Twentieth CenturyPolish 'Neighbours' and German Invaders: Anti-Jewish Violence in the Bialystok District during the Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa; Jews in the Polish Security Apparatus: An Attempt to Test the Stereotype; Part IV: Review; Review Essays: Some Remarks on Leszek Hondo's Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków; The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral; The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967-1968: Documents
Book Reviews: Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech LandsJacob Goldberg, Hahevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita; Kristi Groberg and Avraham Greenbaum (eds.), A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow; Israel Kleiner, From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question; Konrad Zielinski, Zydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914-1918; Jerzy Malinowski, Malarstwo i rzezba Zydów polskich w XIX i XX wieku; Kadya Molodowsky, Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky, ed. and trans. Kathryn Hellerstein
Summary A wide-ranging exploration of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Polish Jewish popular culture that lets its richness and vitality shine through
Notes Julian Tuwim, Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczanskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuly, Listy, ed. Tadeusz Januszewski
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Author Polonsky, Antony
ISBN 9781909821675
1909821675