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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Polin
- Statement from the Editors
- The Question of the Assimilation of Jews in the Polish Kingdom (1864-1897): An Interpretive Essay
- The Secular Appropriation of Hasidism by an East European Jewish Intellectual: Dubnow, Renan, and the Besht
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Some Methodological Problems of the Study of Jewish History in Poland Between the Two World Wars
* - Jews and Poles in Yiddish Literature in Poland Between the Two World Wars
- Is There a Jewish School of Polish Literature?
-
The Underground Movement in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1 - Norman Davies. Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. xxi, 511.
- Linda Gordon. Cossack Rebellions. Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century Ukraine. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1983. Pp. xiv, 289.
- Edward C. Thaden, with the collaboration of Marianna Forster Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1984. Pp. 278.
- Raymond Pearson. National Minorities in Eastern Europe, 1848-1945. London: Macmillan Press. 1983. Pp. x, 249.
- Jerzy Tomaszewski. Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów (A Republic of Many Nations). Czytelnik: Warsaw. 1985. Pp. 287.
- Henry Rollet. La Pologne au XXe siècle. Paris: Pedone. 1985. Pp. 604.
- Jacob Goldberg, editor. Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Critical Edition of Original Latin and Polish Documents with English Introductions and Notes. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 1985. Pp. xxvi, 477.
- Jacob Goldberg, editor. Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Critical Edition of Original Latin and Polish Documents with English Introductions and Notes. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 1985. Pp. xxvi, 477.
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Maurycy Hom, editor. Regesty dokumentów i ekscerpty z Metryki Koronnej do Historii Żydów w Polsce 1697-1795. T.I: Czasy saskie (1697-1763); T.II: Rządy Stanisława Augusta (1764.-1795, Część I: (1764.-1779) [Summaries of Records and Excerpts of the Crown Registry Relating to the History of Jews in
Poland, 1697-1795 - Chone Shmeruk. The Esterke Story in Yiddish and Polish Literature. A Case Study in the Mutual Relations of Two Cultural Traditions. Jerusalem: Studies of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews, The Hebrew University. 1985. Pp. 119.
- David Darshan. Shir HaMa'alot L'David and Kłav Hitnazzelut L'Darshanim. Translated and annotated by H. G. Perelmuter. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. 1984. Pp. xii, 183 and Heb. 52.
- Raphael Mahler. Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment. Translated from the Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein, translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1985. Pp. xiv, 331.
- Michael Stanislawski. Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1983. Pp. xvii, 246.
- O. O. Gruzenberg. Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer. Edited by Don C. Rawson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1981. Pp. xxx, 235.
- David Berger, editor. The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. Pp. 187.
- Steven E. Aschheim. Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1983. Pp. 331.
- Avigdor Dagan, Gertrude Hirschler and Lewis Weiner, editors. The Jews of Czechoslovakia. Historical Studies and Surveys. Vol. III. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1984. Pp. 700.
- Die Juden in den biihmischen Liindern. Vortriige der Tagung des Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee (27, 29 Nov. 1981), München/Wien: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 1983 (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum, ed. Ferdinand Seibt). Pp. 369.
- Ezra Mendelsohn. The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi, 300.
- Joseph Marcus. Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1979-1939. (Studies in the Social Sciences.) Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton Publishers. 1983. Pp. 569.
- Shlomo Netzer. Ma'avak Yehudei Polin al Zekhuyotehem ha-Ezrahiyot ve-ha-Leumiyot (1918–1922) (The Struggle of Polish Jewry for Civil and National Minority Rights [1918–1922]). Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press. 1980. Pp. 338, 4 page English summary.
- Randolph L. Braham, editor. Perspectives on the Holocaust. The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. (Holocaust Studies Series.) New York: City University of New York. 1984. Pp. 501.
- Raul Hilberg. The Destruction of the European Jews. 2nd edn., 3 vols. New York: Holmes and Meier. 1985. Pp. xii, 1223.
- Władysław Bartoszewski. Das Warschauer Ghetto - wie es wirklich war. Zeugenbericht eines Christen. Mit einer Einleitung von Stanislaw Lem. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1983. Pp. 124.
- Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1982. Pp. 487.
- Yechiel Szeintuch, editor. Yitzhak Katzenelson, Yidishe getoksovim: Varshe 1940-1943 [Yiddish Ghetto Writings: Warsaw 1940-1943]. Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House & Hakibbutz Hameuchad. 1984. Pp. x, 770.
- Karin Wolff, editor. Hiob 1943. Ein Requiem für das Warschauer Ghetto. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag. 1983. Pp. 322.
- Lucjan Dobroszycki, editor. The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto 1947-1944. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. 551.
- Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin, translators and editors. From a Ruined Garden. The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry. New York: Schocken Books. 1983. Pp. xv, 275.
- Rachel Ertel. Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition a la modenité. Paris: Payot. 1982. Pp. 321.
- Fr. Tadeusz Sroka. Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli diary, or the religious dimension of man's fate). Warsaw: Spokania. 1985.
- Znak No. 339-340. The Jews in Poland and the World. Catholicism/Judaism. (Cracow, February-March 1983.) Pp. 407 (167-574).
- Gershon David Hundert and Gershon C. Bacon, editors. The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1984. Pp. 276.
- Contributors
Rachel Ertel. Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition a la modenité. Paris: Payot. 1982. Pp. 321.
Rachel Ertel. Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition a la modenité. Paris: Payot. 1982. Pp. 321.
- Chapter:
- Rachel Ertel. Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition a la modenité. Paris: Payot. 1982. Pp. 321.
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 1
- Author(s):
Władysław T. Bartoszewski
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781904113171.003.0054
This chapter focuses on Rachel Ertel's Le Shtetl (1982). One of the most unusual characteristics of Poland as compared with other European countries, was a large Jewish presence in villages and townlets. In the inter-war period, approximately 30 per cent of Jews lived in such settlements. These settlements, shtetlekh, were fascinating centres of Jewish life and culture, and places of daily contacts between Jews and Christian Poles. It is therefore surprising how few books on the shtetl have been published. Hence, one welcomes every publication dealing with this important aspect of Jewish life before the Holocaust. Unfortunately, the work of Rachel Ertel does not fulfil expectations. The author, who teaches American and Jewish civilization in Paris, attempts to show the evolution of shtetlekh from tradition to modernity. The first quarter of the book is an historical summary of Jewish life in Poland from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. This is based on secondary material only, much of which is quite old. The history of Jews in Poland is treated in total isolation from Polish history, about which the author knows precious little.
Keywords: Rachel Ertel, Poland, Jewish presence, shtetlekh, Jewish life, Jewish culture, Jews, Christian Poles, shtetl, Polish history
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Polin
- Statement from the Editors
- The Question of the Assimilation of Jews in the Polish Kingdom (1864-1897): An Interpretive Essay
- The Secular Appropriation of Hasidism by an East European Jewish Intellectual: Dubnow, Renan, and the Besht
-
Some Methodological Problems of the Study of Jewish History in Poland Between the Two World Wars
* - Jews and Poles in Yiddish Literature in Poland Between the Two World Wars
- Is There a Jewish School of Polish Literature?
-
The Underground Movement in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1 - Norman Davies. Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. xxi, 511.
- Linda Gordon. Cossack Rebellions. Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century Ukraine. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1983. Pp. xiv, 289.
- Edward C. Thaden, with the collaboration of Marianna Forster Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1984. Pp. 278.
- Raymond Pearson. National Minorities in Eastern Europe, 1848-1945. London: Macmillan Press. 1983. Pp. x, 249.
- Jerzy Tomaszewski. Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów (A Republic of Many Nations). Czytelnik: Warsaw. 1985. Pp. 287.
- Henry Rollet. La Pologne au XXe siècle. Paris: Pedone. 1985. Pp. 604.
- Jacob Goldberg, editor. Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Critical Edition of Original Latin and Polish Documents with English Introductions and Notes. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 1985. Pp. xxvi, 477.
- Jacob Goldberg, editor. Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Critical Edition of Original Latin and Polish Documents with English Introductions and Notes. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 1985. Pp. xxvi, 477.
-
Maurycy Hom, editor. Regesty dokumentów i ekscerpty z Metryki Koronnej do Historii Żydów w Polsce 1697-1795. T.I: Czasy saskie (1697-1763); T.II: Rządy Stanisława Augusta (1764.-1795, Część I: (1764.-1779) [Summaries of Records and Excerpts of the Crown Registry Relating to the History of Jews in
Poland, 1697-1795 - Chone Shmeruk. The Esterke Story in Yiddish and Polish Literature. A Case Study in the Mutual Relations of Two Cultural Traditions. Jerusalem: Studies of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews, The Hebrew University. 1985. Pp. 119.
- David Darshan. Shir HaMa'alot L'David and Kłav Hitnazzelut L'Darshanim. Translated and annotated by H. G. Perelmuter. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. 1984. Pp. xii, 183 and Heb. 52.
- Raphael Mahler. Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment. Translated from the Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein, translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1985. Pp. xiv, 331.
- Michael Stanislawski. Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1983. Pp. xvii, 246.
- O. O. Gruzenberg. Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer. Edited by Don C. Rawson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1981. Pp. xxx, 235.
- David Berger, editor. The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. Pp. 187.
- Steven E. Aschheim. Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1983. Pp. 331.
- Avigdor Dagan, Gertrude Hirschler and Lewis Weiner, editors. The Jews of Czechoslovakia. Historical Studies and Surveys. Vol. III. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1984. Pp. 700.
- Die Juden in den biihmischen Liindern. Vortriige der Tagung des Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee (27, 29 Nov. 1981), München/Wien: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 1983 (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum, ed. Ferdinand Seibt). Pp. 369.
- Ezra Mendelsohn. The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi, 300.
- Joseph Marcus. Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1979-1939. (Studies in the Social Sciences.) Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton Publishers. 1983. Pp. 569.
- Shlomo Netzer. Ma'avak Yehudei Polin al Zekhuyotehem ha-Ezrahiyot ve-ha-Leumiyot (1918–1922) (The Struggle of Polish Jewry for Civil and National Minority Rights [1918–1922]). Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press. 1980. Pp. 338, 4 page English summary.
- Randolph L. Braham, editor. Perspectives on the Holocaust. The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. (Holocaust Studies Series.) New York: City University of New York. 1984. Pp. 501.
- Raul Hilberg. The Destruction of the European Jews. 2nd edn., 3 vols. New York: Holmes and Meier. 1985. Pp. xii, 1223.
- Władysław Bartoszewski. Das Warschauer Ghetto - wie es wirklich war. Zeugenbericht eines Christen. Mit einer Einleitung von Stanislaw Lem. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1983. Pp. 124.
- Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1982. Pp. 487.
- Yechiel Szeintuch, editor. Yitzhak Katzenelson, Yidishe getoksovim: Varshe 1940-1943 [Yiddish Ghetto Writings: Warsaw 1940-1943]. Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House & Hakibbutz Hameuchad. 1984. Pp. x, 770.
- Karin Wolff, editor. Hiob 1943. Ein Requiem für das Warschauer Ghetto. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag. 1983. Pp. 322.
- Lucjan Dobroszycki, editor. The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto 1947-1944. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. 551.
- Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin, translators and editors. From a Ruined Garden. The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry. New York: Schocken Books. 1983. Pp. xv, 275.
- Rachel Ertel. Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition a la modenité. Paris: Payot. 1982. Pp. 321.
- Fr. Tadeusz Sroka. Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli diary, or the religious dimension of man's fate). Warsaw: Spokania. 1985.
- Znak No. 339-340. The Jews in Poland and the World. Catholicism/Judaism. (Cracow, February-March 1983.) Pp. 407 (167-574).
- Gershon David Hundert and Gershon C. Bacon, editors. The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1984. Pp. 276.
- Contributors
