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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 11: Focusing on Aspects and Experiences of Religion

Antony Polonsky

Abstract

Addressing various aspects of Jewish life and religion, particularly in the last two centuries, this book examines different aspects of the Hasidic tradition; present-day contacts between Bobower Hasidism in New York and Bobowa in Poland; and how a rabbi trained in the Lithuanian tradition adapted to the very different conditions of the United States. The modifications of Jewish religious tradition practiced in the modern pre-war synagogues in Warsaw, Lódz, and Lwów are considered, as is the attempt by Hillel Zeitlyn to re-interpret Jewish tradition in the interwar years.

Keywords: Jewish life, Jewish religion, Hasidic tradition, Jewish religious tradition, Jewish tradition

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9781874774051
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774051.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Antony Polonsky, editor
Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Epigraph

Dedication

Preface

Polin

Polin

Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names

Introduction

Part I On Religion: Aspects and Experiences

Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-War Poland*

Shaul Stampfer

Tobacco and the Hasidim

Louis Jacobs

‘A Thread of Blue’: Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyń and his Search for Continuity in Response to Modernity

Shaul Magid

The Tarler rebbe of Łódź and his Medical Practice: Towards a History of Hasidic Life in Pre-First World War Poland

Ira Robinson

Aaron Menahem Mendel Guterman, the rebbe of Radzymin

Harry Rabinowicz

A Pilgrimage from Bobowa to Bobowa

Adam Bartosz

On the Brink of Disaster: Hillel Zeitlin’s Struggle for Jewish Survival in Poland

Shraga Bar Sella

Ala from the Primer*

Alina Margolis-Edelman

The Congregation of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw: Its Changing Social Composition and Ideological Affiliations

Alexander Guterman

The Progressive Synagogue in Lwów

Julian J. Bussgang

The Synagogues of Łódź

Krzysztof Stefański

Part II New Views

Conspiracy Theories and the Reception of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Poland

Janusz Tazbir

Polish Influences on British Policy Regarding Jewish Rescue Efforts in Poland 1939–1945*

Bernard Wasserstein

The Concerns of an Immigrant Rabbi: The Life and Sermons of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz*

Kimmy Caplan

Trunk’s Poyln: Its Place in Jewish Polish History

Anna Clarke

Jewish–Ukrainian Relations in Inter-War Poland as Reflected in Some Ukrainian Publications*

Shimon Redlich

Jewish Martyrdom in the Works of Adolf Rudnicki*

Józef Wróbel

The Jewish Question in Poland: Views Expressed in the Catholic Press between the Two World Wars

Anna Landau-Czajka

Part III Reviews

Review Eśśays History, Experience, and Democracy István Bibó Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944–Fifty Years Later*

Robert Braun

The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust

Michael Burleigh

Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians

Jerzy Tomaszewski

A New Account of the ‘March Events’

Józef Lewandowski

Book Reviews Andrzej Żbikowski Żydzi krakowscy i ich gmina w latach 1869–1919

Hanna Kozińska-Witt

Mojżesz Schorr i jego listy do Ludwika Gumplowicza

Hanna Kozińska-Witt

Świat pod kontrolą: Wybór materiałów z archiwum cenzury rosyjskiej w Warszawie

Chone Shmeruk

Andrzej Jezierski (Ed.) Historia Polski w liczbach: Ludność, terytorium

Jakub Basista

Rainer Erb (Ed.) Die Legende vom Ritualmord: Zur Geschichte der Blutbeschuldigung gegen Juden

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Milton Shain The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa

Sander L. Gilman

Regina Renz Społeczeństwo małomiasteczkowe w województwie kieleckim 1918–1939

Samuel D. Kassow

Christopher Clark The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941

Alan Levenson

Jacek J. Jadacki and Barbara Markiewicz (Eds.) A mądrości zło nie przemoże

Jakub Basista

Death Books from Auschwitz: Remnants

Jolanta Ambrosiewicz-Jacobs

Norman Salsitz, as told to Richard Skolnik

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and the Holocaust

Jack Nusan Porter

Barbara and Leszek Amatys and Wieslaw Stradomski

Natan Gross

Nechama Tec Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

Franklin Littell

Felicja Karay Death Comes in Yellow: Skarżysko-Kamienna Slave Labour Camp

Frank Bialystok

Tomas Venclova Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast

Gwido Zlatkes

Irena Kowalsk and Ida Merżan Rottenbergowie znad Buga

Clarke Anna

Fanny Solomian Getto i gwiazdy

Arnost Lustig Children of the Holocaust

Michael Greenstein

Obituary Julian Stryjkowski

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

The Third Competition of Scholarly Works on Polish Jewish and Israeli Themes

Alina Cała

End Matter

A Bibliography of Polish Jewish Studies 1995

Notes on the Contributors and Translators

Glossary

Index