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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 33: Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750

François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, Ada Rapoport-Albert, and Marcin Wodzinski

Print publication date: 2021

Print ISBN-13: 9781906764753

Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: September 2021

DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764753.001.0001

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A Forgotten Network?

A Forgotten Network?

New Perspectives on Progressive Synagogues in Galicia and the Kingdom of Poland

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(p.261) A Forgotten Network?
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 33
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Alicja Maśiak-Maciejewska

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Liverpool University Press
DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781906764753.003.0013

This chapter describes the post-partition Polish lands, in which several prayer houses and synagogues strove for the modernization of religious life and introduced some innovations and moderate liturgical reforms. It talks about different innovations that changed over time and ranged from simply putting more emphasis on aesthetics, order, and decorum to more radical yet still limited changes, such as the introduction of a regular modern sermon delivered in German or Polish by an academically educated preacher. It also cites Majer Balaban’s book on the progressive synagogue in Lwów, which became an object of academic investigation by Jewish Polish historians. The chapter examines the characteristics of the pre-war research that focused on the histories of particular progressive circles and the activities of progressive leaders. It discusses the two dominant narratives that include the biographies of religious leaders and the histories of particular synagogues.

Keywords:   religious life, post-partition, Polish lands, Majer Balaban, progressive synagogue, pre-war research

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