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11 results in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 31
  • Poland and Hungary: Jewish Realities Compared
  • Volume 31
  • Edited by François Guesnet, Howard Lupovitch, Antony Polonsky
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 July 2020
    Print publication:
    19 December 2018
  • At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Jewish communities of Poland and Hungary were the largest in the world and arguably the most culturally vibrant, yet they have rarely been studied comparatively. Despite the obvious similarities, historians have mainly preferred to highlight the differences and emphasize instead the central European character of Hungarian Jewry. Collectively, these essays offer a different perspective. The volume has five sections. The first compares Jewish acculturation and integration in the two countries, analysing the symbiosis of magnates and Jews in each country's elites and the complexity of integration in multi-ethnic environments. The second considers the similarities and differences in Jewish religious life, discussing the impact of Polish hasidism in Hungary and the nature of 'progressive' Judaism in Poland and the Neolog movement in Hungary. Jewish popular culture is the theme of the third section, with accounts of the Jewish involvement in Polish and Hungarian cabaret and film. The fourth examines the deterioration of the situation in both countries in the interwar years, while the final section compares the implementation of the Holocaust and the way it is remembered. The volume concludes with a long interview with the doyen of historians of Hungary, István Deák.

Jews and the Emerging Polish State (Polin Volume Two)

Jews, Poles, Socialists: The Failure of an Ideal

The Shtetl: Myth and Reality
  • Edited by Antony Polonsky
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    23 November 2019
    Print publication:
    25 November 2004
  • The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature.

The Jews of Warsaw

Poles and Jews: Renewing the Dialogue
  • Edited by Antony Polonsky
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    28 November 2019
    Print publication:
    01 July 2004
  • In this volume of Polin, scholars from the fields of history, sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, literature, and folklore explore central themes in Jewish and European history.

Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry: Index to Volumes 1–12
  • Edited by Antony Polonsky
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 November 2000
  • Includes a subject index and a chronological index, indexes of contributors and books reviewed; tables of contents by volume; maps; and other research aids.

Jews in Early Modern Poland
  • Edited by Gershon David Hundert
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 November 1997
  • Core essays cover developments within the Jewish community and also its contacts with Polish society to show how Jewish society flourished without being insular.

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 8
  • Jews in Independent Poland, 1918–1939
  • Edited by Antony Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Ezra Mendelsohn
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 July 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 1994
  • In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Assimilation - were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of anitsemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This latest volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America, which together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which have in the past proved so divisive. It also includes a number of personal testimonies from people who experienced the interwar period at first hand. The result is a book that will be essential reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and in the problems of ethnic minorities in post-Versailles Europe.

From Shtetl to Socialism
  • Studies from Polin
  • Edited by Antony Polonsky
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 December 1993
  • Until 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and secular-was profound. An understanding of the history of the Jews of Poland is thus essential to a proper understanding of Jewish history. This book, comprising a selection of studies drawn from the first seven volumes of Polin, provides that understanding. Written by scholars from Europe (including Poland itself), Israel, and North America, it illuminates the most critical aspects of the history of the Jews in Poland and illustrates how these issues are being treated by the leading and most innovative scholars in the field. A broad spectrum of subjects is discussed, covering the origins and development of the community and the many crises it experienced from the earliest date of Jewish settlement in Poland to the establishment of Communist rule in postwar Poland. Maps and a chronology of Polish Jewish history are also provided, and the book is prefaced by an extensive introduction by Antony Polonsky, general editor of Polin.CONTRIBUTORS: Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Israel Bartal, David Biale, Eugene C. Black, Jan Blonski, Norman Davies, David Engel, Jacob Goldberg, Gershon David Hundert, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Pawel Korzec, Ewa Kurek-Lesik, Magdalena Opalski, Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Eugenia Prokopowna, Laura Quercioli-Mincer, M. J. Rosman, Szymon Rudnicki, Pawel Samus, Robert Moses Shapiro, Chone Shmeruk, Shaul Stampfer, Michael C. Steinlauf, Pawel Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Paul Wexler, Anna Zuk