Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

Between Practice and Phantasm

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Halina Goldberg, Bożena Shallcross, Bozena Shallcross, Bożena Shallcross

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The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena Shallcross present 11 captivating articles that delve into the inn's significance as a symbolic incubator of Jewish cultural possibilities. The collection examines the inn's evolving artistic potential across different eras, genres, media, and analytical perspectives.From exploring the intricate connections between music, dance, and other arts within the inn's spatial arrangement to highlighting the increasing prominence of women in the inn's family dynamics, The Jewish Inn offers a comprehensive and transdisciplinary reevaluation of this crucial institution and stands as a significant and creative contribution to Polish-Jewish studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-03
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJews of Eastern Europe
Antal sidor254
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253072924

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Halina Goldberg is Professor of Musicology and Director of the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is Director of the digital project Jewish Life in Interwar Łódź (https://jewish-lodz.iu.edu), and the author of Music in Chopin's Warsaw.Bożena Shallcross is Professor of Polish Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Core Faculty of the Institute on the Formation of Culture at the University of Chicago. She is author of The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture, which also appeared in Polish and Russian translations.

Preface: An Invitation to the Jewish Inn, by Bożena ShallcrossAcknowledgmentsNote on Place Names, Personal Names, and TransliterationsPart I: Theatrical and Literary Phantasms1. The Jewish Innkeeper in Polish National Ballet, by Halina Goldberg2. The Romantic Invention of the Jewish Inn, by Bożena ShallcrossPart II: Contractual Frameworks3. Jewish Tavern Here and There: An Impact of Regional and Other Differences in Forms of Rural Lease-Holdings before and after Partitions, by Judith KalikPart III: Communal Spaces in Transition4. Jewish Musicians in the Polish Inn during the Nineteenth Century, by Benjamin Vogel5. From Taverns to Courtyards and Cafes: How the Shtetl Transferred/ Migrated in Fin-De-Siècle Warsaw, by Beth HolmgrenPart IV: Innkeepers' Daughters6. Jula's Diary: A Hasidic Tavernkeeper's Daughter during the First World War, by Glenn Dynner7. Writing for Hay: Wyspiański's Rachela as Arbiter of Speculative Value, by Eliza RosePart V: The Voided Austeria8. From Lost Center to Not-Knowing: On the Use of the Jewish Inn in Julian Stryjkowski's The Inn And Piotr Szewc's Annihilation, by Alexander Lindskog9. Austeria and a Tavern, by Iwona KurzPart VI: After Nostalgia10. Serving Ciulim in Polish Countryside: Food and the Construction of a "Polish-Jewish Heritage", by Magdalena Zatorska11. Jewish Tavern, Jewish Places: Beyond Nostalgia, by Sławomir SikoraBibliographyIndex