Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish

Moshe Rosman is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has taught and held fellowships at many universities in Europe and the United States, published several prize-winning books, and received an honorary doctorate and prestigious awards, most recently the Rothschild Prize in Jewish Studies (2020).

• IntroductionPART I HISTORIOGRAPHYIntroduction1. A New Scholarly Foundation: The Historiography of Polish Jewry Since 19452. The Verdict of Israeli Historiography on Hasidism3. POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the New Polish Jewish MetahistoryPART II JEWS AND OTHER POLESIntroduction4. Jewish Perceptions of Persecution and Powerlessness in the Commonwealth5. A Minority Views the Majority: Jewish Attitudes Towards the Commonwealth and Interaction with Poles6. Dubno in the Wake of Khmelnytsky7. The Question of the Jews in the Constitution of the Third of MayPART III THE JEWISH COMMUNITYIntroduction8. Jewish Autonomy in Poland and the Polish Regime9. The Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside Poland--Lithuania10. The Indebtedness of the Lublin Kahal in the Eighteenth Century11. Everyday Violence in Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth12. The Image of Poland as a Torah Centre after 1648PART IV WOMENIntroduction13. History of Jewish Women in the Commonwealth I: An Assessment14. History of Jewish Women in the Commonwealth II: From Facilitation to Participation15. A Proto-Feminist Demand to Increase Jewish Women’s Religious Capital: Leah Horowitz’s Tkhine ImohosPART V HASIDISMIntroduction16. The Rise of Hasidism17. Międzybóż and Rabbi Yisra’el Ba’al Shem Tov18. Stories that Changed History: The Unique Career of Shivḥei habesht19. Hasidism as a Modern PhenomenonConclusion: Theme Decoding

Reviews'This is a book I myself would want!'Antony Polonsky, author of the three-volume History of the Jews in Poland and Russia