Warsaw : the Jewish Metropolis ; essays in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky

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Warsaw : the Jewish Metropolis ; essays in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky / ed. by Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dynner, Glenn (Editor), Guesnet, François (Editor), Polonsky, Antony (Honoree)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Leiden : Brill, 2015
Series:	IJS Studies in Judaica 15
Contents/pieces:	25 records

1. Hope and fear : Y.L. Peretz and the dialectics of diaspora nationalism, 1905-12

2. Illegal immigrants : the Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792

3. Merchants, army suppliers, bankers : transnational connections and the rise of Warsaw's Jewish mercantile elite (1770-1820)

4. Distributing knowledge : Warsaw as a center of Jewish publishing, 1850-1914

5. From community to metropolis : the Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880

6. The Polish underground press and the Jews : the Holocaust in the pages of the home army's 'Biuletyn Informacyjny', 1940-1943

7. Stories of rescue activities in the letters of Jewish survivors about Christian Polish rescuers, 1944-1949

8. In search of meaning after Marxism : the 'Komandosi', March 1968, and the ideas that followed

9. The reconstruction of Jewish life in Warsaw after the Holocaust : a case study of a building and its residents

10. The end of a Jewish metropolis? : the ambivalence of reconstruction in the aftermath of the Holocaust

11. The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw : a stopover in the Yiddishists' journey between Kiev and Paris

12. A Warsaw story : Polish-Jewish relations during the First World War

13. "Di Haynt-mishpokhe" : study for a group picture

14. "Context is everything." : reflections on studying with Antony Polonsky

15. The Warsaw Ghetto in the writings of Rachel Auerbach

16. Enduring prestige, eroded authority : the Warsaw rabbinate in the interwar period

17. "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

18. In Warsaw and beyond : the contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish modernization

19. In Kotik's corner : urban culture, bourgeois politics and the struggle of Jewish civility in turn of the century Eastern Europe

20. The capital of "Yiddishland"?

21. The garment of Torah : clothing decrees and the Warsaw career of the first Gerer 'rebbe'

22. The politics of retribution in postwar Warsaw : in the honor court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews

23. An unhappy community and an even unhappier rabbi

24. From Galicia to Warsaw : interwar historians of Polish Jewry

25. Negotiating Jewish nationalism in interwar Warsaw