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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14: Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands

Antony Polonsky

Abstract

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1569, covered a wide spectrum of faiths and languages. The nobility, who were the main focus of Polishness, were predominantly Catholic; the peasantry included Catholics, Protestants, and members of the Orthodox faith, while nearly half the urban population, and some 10 per cent of the total population, was Jewish. The partition of Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the subsequent struggle to regain Polish independence raised the question of what the boundaries of a future state should be, and who qualified as a Pole. The partitioning ... More

Keywords: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jews, western Poland, Polish independence, Poles, Germans, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Jewish life

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9781874774693
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774693.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Antony Polonsky, author
Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Epigraph

Dedication

Preface

Polin

Note on Place-Names

Note on Transliteration

The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Massacre in Jedwabne: Two Speeches Delivered in Jedwabne, 10 July 2001

Part I Jews in the Polish Borderlands

Introduction

Antony Polonsky

The Self-Perception of Lithuanian–Belarusian Jewry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Vital Zajka

Jewish Rights of Residence in Cieszyn Silesia, 1742–1848

Spyra Janusz

The Jewish Community in the Grand Duchy of Poznań under Prussian Rule, 1815–1848

Sophia Kemlein

Between Germans and Poles: The Jews of Poznań in 1848

Krzysztof A. Makowski

The Rabbinical Schools as Institutions of Socialization in Tsarist Russia, 1847–1873

Verena Dohrn

The Zhitomir Rabbinical School: New Materials and Perspectives

Efim Melamed

Three Documents on Anti-Jewish Violence in the Eastern Kresy during the Polish–Soviet Conflict

Sarunas Liekis, Lidia Miliakova, and Antony Polonsky

The Policies of the Sanacja on the Jewish Minority in Silesia, 1926–1939

Jacek Piotrowski

The Vilna Years of Jakub Rotbaum

Anna Hannowa

Tsevorfene bleter: The Emergence of Yung Vilne

Justin D. Cammy

Jewish Autonomy in Inter-WarLithuania: An Interview withYudl Mark

Dov Levin

The Transfer of Vilna District into Lithuania, 1939

Sarunas Liekis

Jan Kazimierz University 1936–1939: A Memoir

Bronisława Witz-Margulies

My First Encounters with Jews and Ukrainians

Jacek Kuroń

Lithuania Honours a Holocaust Rescuer

Jonathan Goldstein

Part II New Views

Christian Servants Employed by Jews in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Judith Kalik

Boleław Prus and the Dreyfus Case

Agnieszka Friedrich

Jewish War Cemeteries in Western Galicia

Adam Bartosz

New Sources on the History of the Old Town Synagogue in Łódź

Krzysztof Stefański

A Fish Breaks through the Net:Sven Norrman and the Holocaust

Józef Lewandowski

The Work and Recommendations of the Polish–Israeli Textbooks Committee

Shevach Eden

The Image of the Holocaust in Polish Historical Consciousness

Feliks Tych

Part III Reviews

Review Essays John Paul II on Jews and Judaism

Robert S. Wistrich

Recent Developments in the Historiography of Silesian Jews

Wodziński Marcin

A Review of Some Recent Issues of the Biuletyn Żydowskiego InstytutuHistorycznego

Abraham Brumberg

Gates of Heaven

Eleonora Bergman

Upside-Down History

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Book Reviews

John M. Carlebach

Edward Fram

Michael Broyde and Ricetti Angela, (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1997); pp. xiv + 186

Chava Weissler

Norma Baumel Joseph, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998); pp. xxvi + 270

David Assaf

Glenn Dynner, (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 1997); pp. 538

Sophia Kemlein

Jerzy Tomaszewski, (Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 1997); pp. 387 + 4

Leszek Ziątkowski

Marcin Wodzinski, (Wrocław: Wydawnictwo ‘Profil’, 1998); pp. 88 + 48

Naomi Seidman

Esther Frank, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997); pp. x + 160

Olaf Bergmann

Szymon Rudnicki, (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1998); pp. 400

Helena Bodek

Joanna Rostropowicz Clarke, (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1993); pp. iv + 156

Rafael F. Scharf

Sean Martin, (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998); pp. xviii + 182

Michal Glowiński

Gilbert C. Rappaport, (Warsaw: OPEN, 1998); pp. 182

Daniel Tollet (ed), Les Vérités des uns et celles des autres: Points de vue de juifs et de chrétiens sur la Shoah en Pologne

Jeffrey Haus, (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1995); pp. 232

Irena F. Karafilly, Ashes and Miracles: A Polish Journey

Katarzyna Więcławska, (Toronto: Malcolm Lester Books, 1998); pp. viii + 296

Obituaries Andrzej Szczypiorski

Rafael Scharf

Jerzy Turowicz

End Matter

Notes on the Contributors

Glossary

Index