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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Author's Preface; Part I. Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews; The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution; The Opponents of the Jews; Economic Success; Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews; Learning and Culture; The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country; A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland?; Part II. East European Jewry as a 'Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe; The Catastrophe of 1648; The Consequences of the Catastrophe; The Kabbala; The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank |
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The Popular Piety of HasidismThe Origins of the Ostjuden; The 'Shtetl'; Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and Innkeepers; The Symbiosis Diminishes; Jews in the Partitions of Poland; The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, and Religious Conditions; The Tsarist Empire and the Jews; East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule; Part III. The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern Europe and a New Identity; Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function; 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring'; Luftmenshn |
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Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New Intermediary ActivitiesCompetition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti-Semitism; Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment; Assimilation and Acculturation; 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews; By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and Łódź; The Jewish Family; Men and Women in Jewish Society; Jewish Upbringing; Everyday Religious Customs; Synagogue and Community Organizations; Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World; Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity; Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland |
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A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and BukovinaA Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary; Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia; Part IV. Attempted Annihilation and New Hope; The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union; East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti-Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars; A Precarious Situation in Individual East European Countries; The Attempted Extermination of the Jews |
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The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New HopeAfterword: The Significance of Memory; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals; General Overviews and Comprehensive Works; Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews; Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe; Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern Europe and a New Identity; Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope; Index |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Eastern -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045773
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Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations
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Eastern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789639241374 |
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9639241377 |
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