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Author Hundert, Gershon David

Title Polin : Jews in Early Modern Poland
Published London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (492 pages)
Series Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser. ; v. 10
Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; 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; Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland; 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim; The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought; The Ashkenazi Élite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book
The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500-1800Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwoździec-Chodorów Group of Wooden Synagogues; In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivhei ha Besht; Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews; Part II: New Views; Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations; 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter; Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations
On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century PolandPart III: Reviews; Review Essays; On Eisenbach on Emancipation; A Reply to Tomasz Gąsowski; Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer; On Auschwitz; Book Reviews; Israel Bartal, Rachel Elior, and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), Tsadikim ve'anshei ma'aseh: Mehkarim behasidut 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, 1780-1870Barbara Engelking, Na lące popiołów: Ocaleni z Holocaustu; Barbara Engelking, Zaglada i pamięć; 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. Fijalkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródlowych 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 CenturyEdward 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
Summary Core essays cover developments within the Jewish community and also its contacts with Polish society to show how Jewish society flourished without being insular
Notes Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim: Materiały sesji naukowej w Warszawie, 15-16 Wrzesien 1992
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Subject Jews -- Poland -- History
Jews -- Poland -- Civilization
Poland -- Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Civilization
Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781909821613
1909821616