Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Contents
- Towards a Polish–Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward
- Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I JEWS IN EARLY MODERN POLAND
- PART II NEW VIEWS
- PART III REVIEWS
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Israel Bartal, Rachel Elior, and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Tsadikim ve'anshei ma'aseh: Meḥkarim beḥasidut Polin
- S. Bronsztejn, Z dziejów ludności żydowskiej na Dolnym Śląsku po II wojnie światowej
- Abraham David (ed.), A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, c.1615
- Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky (eds.), Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939–1946
- Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780–1870
- Barbara Engelking, Na łące popiolłów: Ocaleni z Holocaustu
- Barbara Engelking, Zagłada i pamięc
- Peter Faessler, Thomas Held, and Dirk Sawitzki (eds.), Lemberg–Lwow–Lviv: Eine Stadt im Schnittpunkt europäischer Kulturen
- Darrel J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?
- P. Fijałkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródłowych XI–XVIII wieku
- David E. Fishman, Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov
- Joseph Held (ed.), The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom
- Edward Kossoy and Abraham Ohry, The Feldshers: Medical, Sociological, and Historical Aspects of Practitioners of Medicine with below University Level Education
- Mark Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914–1919
- Steven M. Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830
- Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
- Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim
- Clare Moore (ed.), The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art
- Gedalyah Nigal, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism
- Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood
- Eugenia Prokóp-Janiec, Międzywojenna literatura polsko-żydowska jako zjawisko kulturowe i artystyczne
- Joel Raba, Bein zikaron lehakheḥashah: Gezerot taḥvetat bereshimot benei hazeman ubere'i haketivah hahistorit
- Marek Rostworowski (ed.), Żydzi w Polsce: Obraz i słowo
- Jean W. Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500
- Jerzy Topolski, Polska w czasach nowożytnych: Od środkowoeuropejskiej potęgi do utraty niepodłegłości, 1501–1795
- Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government
- E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
- Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism
- Bibliography of polish–jewish studies, 1994
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Jean W. Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500
from BOOK REVIEWS
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Contents
- Towards a Polish–Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward
- Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I JEWS IN EARLY MODERN POLAND
- PART II NEW VIEWS
- PART III REVIEWS
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Israel Bartal, Rachel Elior, and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Tsadikim ve'anshei ma'aseh: Meḥkarim beḥasidut Polin
- S. Bronsztejn, Z dziejów ludności żydowskiej na Dolnym Śląsku po II wojnie światowej
- Abraham David (ed.), A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, c.1615
- Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky (eds.), Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939–1946
- Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780–1870
- Barbara Engelking, Na łące popiolłów: Ocaleni z Holocaustu
- Barbara Engelking, Zagłada i pamięc
- Peter Faessler, Thomas Held, and Dirk Sawitzki (eds.), Lemberg–Lwow–Lviv: Eine Stadt im Schnittpunkt europäischer Kulturen
- Darrel J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?
- P. Fijałkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródłowych XI–XVIII wieku
- David E. Fishman, Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov
- Joseph Held (ed.), The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom
- Edward Kossoy and Abraham Ohry, The Feldshers: Medical, Sociological, and Historical Aspects of Practitioners of Medicine with below University Level Education
- Mark Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914–1919
- Steven M. Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830
- Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
- Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim
- Clare Moore (ed.), The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art
- Gedalyah Nigal, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism
- Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood
- Eugenia Prokóp-Janiec, Międzywojenna literatura polsko-żydowska jako zjawisko kulturowe i artystyczne
- Joel Raba, Bein zikaron lehakheḥashah: Gezerot taḥvetat bereshimot benei hazeman ubere'i haketivah hahistorit
- Marek Rostworowski (ed.), Żydzi w Polsce: Obraz i słowo
- Jean W. Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500
- Jerzy Topolski, Polska w czasach nowożytnych: Od środkowoeuropejskiej potęgi do utraty niepodłegłości, 1501–1795
- Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government
- E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
- Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism
- Bibliography of polish–jewish studies, 1994
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
The concept of east central Europe as a separate entity is relatively recent. Though it has roots in medieval times as the area east of German-and Italianspeaking territory and west of Russia, it is only since the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the subsequent reorientation of most of the countries in the area west of Russia (i.e. central Europe) that east central Europe emerged as a politically self-conscious part of Europe. Nevertheless, its frontiers are not easily drawn.
The book under review, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, is the third in the ten-volume series, A History of East Central Europe, under the general editorship of Peter F. Sugar and the late Donald W. Treadgold. It is comparable to W. Conze's posthumous Ostmitteleuropa: Von der Spatantike bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Munich, 1993), although the German historian's chronological range was wider and his focus narrower. Most of the ten volumes in the East Central Europe series have already appeared: only volume ii, on the beginnings of history in east central Europe, volume iv, on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1386‒1795, and volume x, on east central Europe since 1939, have yet to be published.
The volume by Sedlar, although somewhat arbitrarily limited to the period 1000‒1500, covers its complex theme less chronologically than by topics. To be sure, chapter 1 deals largely with the first millennium ad, and at least two major events occurred in the year 1000: Emperor Otto III visited Poland and the arch-diocese of Gniezno was established, and Hungary converted to Christianity. The cut-off year of 1500, however, boasts no such momentous events.
The book is divided into fifteen chapters: ‘Early Migrations’; ‘State Formation’; ‘Mon archies’; ‘Nobles and Landholders’; ‘Peasants, Herders, Serfs, and Slaves’; ‘Towns and Townspeople’; ‘Religion and the Churches’; ‘The Art and Practice of War’; ‘Governments’; ‘Laws and Justice’; ‘Commerce and Money’; ‘Foreign Affairs’; ‘Ethnicity and Nationalism’; ‘Languages and Literatures’; and ‘Education and Literacy’.
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- Jews in Early Modern Poland , pp. 402 - 405Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1997