ISBN:
9789004291805
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (640 p)
Series Statement:
IJS Studies in Judaica
Series Statement:
IJS Studies in Judaica Ser. v.15
Parallel Title:
Print version Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis : Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky
DDC:
305.892/4043841
Keywords:
Jews - Poland - Warsaw - Economic conditions - History
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Konferenzschrift 2010
Abstract:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis -- Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792 -- Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820) -- Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization -- Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe -- Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880 -- Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi -- Chapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914 -- Chapter 8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe -- Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905-12 -- Chapter 10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe": Study for a Group Picture -- Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War -- Chapter 12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"? -- Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and Paris -- Chapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period -- Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry -- Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw -- Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943 -- Chapter 18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust
Abstract:
Chapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach -- Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949 -- Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews -- Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust -- Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents -- Chapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed -- Chapter 25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky -- Name Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis; Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792; Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820); Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization; Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe; Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier RabbiChapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914; Chapter 8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe; Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905-12; Chapter 10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe": Study for a Group Picture; Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War; Chapter 12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"?
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Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and ParisChapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period; Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry; Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw; Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath; Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the HolocaustChapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach; Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949; Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews; Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its ResidentsChapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed; Chapter 25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky; Name Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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