A central core of articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries covers the history of Jewish settlement; Jewish population in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early Partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the First World War; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Warsaw Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the Holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.
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Articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries.
Statement from the Editors
 Jews in Warsaw  
Emanuel Ringelbaum, the Chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto ISRAEL GUTMAN
The Undefined Town within a Town: A History of Jewish Settlement in the Western Districts of Warsaw PETER J. MARTYN
The Jewish Population in Warsaw at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ARTUR EISENBACH
‘The Jews have Killed a Tailor’: The Socio-Political Background of a Pogrom in Warsaw in 1790 KRYSTYNA ZIENKOWSKA
The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1862 STEFAN KIENIEWICZ
Aspects of Population Change and of Acculturation in Jewish Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Censuses of 1882 and 1987 STEPHEN D. CORRSIN
Aspects of the History Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre CHONE SHMERUK
Jewish Warsaw before the First World War PIOTR WROBEL
The History of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO
Articles The Socio-Cultural Integration of the Jewish Population in the Province of Radom, 1815-1862 ADAM PENKALLA
The Religious Orders and the Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland JERZY KLOCZOWSKI
The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women’s Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945 EWA KUREK-LESIK

Document
Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Talks with Representatives of the Polish Government JERZY TOMASZEWSKI

Commentary
On Immoral Reason and Illogical Morality ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Reports International Conference on Polish Jews in Jerusalem ANTONY POLONSKY
Catalogue of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland ADAM PENKALLA

Reviews
REVIEW ESSAYS
Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century ANDRZEJ POPPE
The Polish Borderlands and Nationality Problems HENRY ROLLET

BOOK REVIEWS
Letter to the Editors
Contributors
Obituaries
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Published for the Institute for Polish—Jewish Studies and the American Association for Polish—Jewish Studies by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781904113188
Publisert
2004-08-01
Utgiver
Liverpool University Press
Vekt
673 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
474

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Biografisk notat

Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.