Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 22

Adam Teller is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. He is the author of two books, both in Hebrew: Living Together: The Jewish Quarter of Poznan and its Inhabitants in the Seventeenth Century (2003) and Money, Power, and Influence: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania (2005). He has published a number of articles on the social, economic, and cultural history of Polish Lithuanian Jewry in the early modern period, and is currently working on a history of the Polish Lithuanian rabbinate in that period. Magda Teter is an Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (2006). Her articles on Polish Jewish history have appeared in Jewish History, AJS Review, Kwartalnik Żydowski, Sixteenth Century Journal, and Gal-ed. Her research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Koret Foundation, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Hanadiv Foundation (Israel), among others. She directs the Early Modern Workshop project. 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.

• Note on Place NamesNote on TransliterationPart I  Structural and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern PolandIntroductionADAM TELLER AND MAGDA TETERHugo Grotius and the Blood Libel Trials in Lublin, 1636MEIR BAŁABANThe Boundaries of Memory: A Central European Chronograph from 1655ELISHEVA CARLEBACHThe Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside Poland–LithuaniaMOSHE ROSMANTelling the Difference: Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews’ Legal Status in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman EmpireADAM TELLERThe Jewish Community in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthJACOB GOLDBERGThe Jewish Economic Elite in Red Ruthenia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesJÜRGEN HEYDEAcross the River: How and Why the Jews of Kraków Settled in Kazimierz at the End of the Fifteenth CenturyHANNA ZAREMSKAThe Rubinkowski Family, Converts in KazimierzADAM KAŹMIERCZYKJews in Public Places: Chapters in the Jewish–Christian Encounter in Seventeenth-Century VilnaDAVID FRICK‘There should be no love between us and them’: Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern PolandMAGDA TETERPart II  New ViewsBlood and the Hasidim: On the History of Ritual Murder Accusations in Nineteenth-Century PolandMARCIN WODZIŃSKIIntegration and its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in RussiaBRIAN HOROWITZBolesław Prus and the Assimilation of Polish JewsAGNIESZKA FRIEDRICH Dialogue or Monologue? The Relationship Between Jewish and Polish Journalists in Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyELA BAUERGender, Zionism, and Orthodoxy: The Women of the Mizrahi Movement in Poland, 1916–1939ASAF KANIELPatriotism and Antisemitism: The Crisis of Polish Jewish Identity between the WarsDAVID ABERBACHThe Nazi Murder of the Jews in Polish Eyes: Views in the Underground Press, 1942–1945KLAUS-PETER FRIEDRICHThe Spring that Passed: The Pikador Poets’ Return to JewishnessMARCI SHORE Resisting a Phantom Book: A Critical Assessment of the Initial Polish Discussion of Jan Gross’s FearMONIKA RICEImagined Diaspora: The Shtetl in Allen Hoffman’s Small Worlds and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is IlluminatedJEREMY SHEREObituariesJohn KlierGlossaryNotes on the ContributorsIndex

'This is a notable contribution to the leading English-language series on Polish Jewry. It can serve as an ideal starting point for students interested in the development of Judaism in Eastern Europe in pre-modern Poland. The introduction by Teller and Teter offers an incisive picture of much of the historiography of of the period, while many of the articles offer both background and detailed pictures of specific institutions and events that are important for religious studies . . . Libraries with a serious collection dealing with Eastern European Jewishlife and culture might want to consider the series in its entirety.' Shaul Stampfer, Religious Studies Review