Del 27 - Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 27

Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1918

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvGlenn Dynner,Antony Polonsky,Marcin Wodziński

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The Kingdom of Poland, also known as the Congress Kingdom or Russian Poland, was created by a decision of the Congress of Vienna as part of its attempt to set up a post-Napoleonic European order. It incorporated lands that for many decades had been the most important centres of Polish politics, finance, education, and culture, and which also had the largest concentration of Jews in eastern Europe. Because of these factors, and because its semi-autonomous status allowed for the development of a liberal policy towards Jews quite different from that of Russia proper, the Kingdom of Poland became a fertile ground for the growth of Jewish cultural and political movements of all sorts, many of which continue to be influential to this day. This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to present a broad view of the Jewish life of this important area at a critical moment in its history.In the nineteenth century, tradition vied with modernization for Jews’ hearts and minds. In the Kingdom of Poland, traditional hasidic leaders defied the logic of modernization by creating courts near major urban centres such as Warsaw and Łódź and shtiblekh within them, producing innovative and influential homiletic literature and attracting new followers. Modernizing maskilim, for their part, found employment as government officials and took advantage of the liberal climate to establish educational institutions and periodicals that similarly attracted followers to their own cause and influenced the development of the Jewish community in the Kingdom in a completely different direction. Their immediate successors, the Jewish integrationists, managed to gain considerable power within the Jewish community and to create a vibrant and more secular Polish Jewish culture. Subsequently Zionism, Jewish socialism, and cultural autonomy also became significant forces. The relative strength of each movement on the eve of the rebirth of Poland is extremely difficult to measure, but unquestionably the ferment of so many potent, competing movements was a critical factor in shaping the modern Jewish experience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-11-14
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt822 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Antal sidor512
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781906764227

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Glenn Dynner is Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, and was the 2013–14 Senior NEH Scholar at the Center for Jewish History. He is the author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (2006) and Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (2013). He is also editor of Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe (2011). 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. Marcin Wodziński is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław.

Note on Place NamesNote on TransliterationPART I: Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1918The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews: IntroductionGLENN DYNNER & MARCIN WODZIŃSKIJews in the in the Discourses of the Polish EnlightenmentRICHARD BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKIThe Jews in the Duchy of Warsaw: The Question of Equal Rights in Administrative Theory and PracticeALEKSANDRA ONISZCZUK‘English Missionaries’ Look at Polish Jews: The Value and Limitations of Missionary Reports as Source MaterialAGNIESZKA JAGODZIŃSKA‘Languishing from a Distance’: Louis Meyer and the Demise of the German Jewish IdealFRANÇOIS GUESNET'Each for his Own': Economic Nationalism in Łódź, 1864–1914YEDIDA KANFERThe Attitude of the Jews towards Poland’s IndependenceSZYMON RUDNICKIAnti-Jewish Pogroms in the Kingdom of PolandARTUR MARKOWSKITheology in Translation: Progressive Judaism in the Kingdom of PolandBENJAMIN MATIS'Who Has Not Wanted To Be an Editor: The Yiddish Press in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905–1914JOANNA NALEWAJKO-KULIKOVJews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1861–1914: Changes and ContinuitiesTHEODORE WEEKSFeliks Perl on the Jewish QuestionJOSHUA D. ZIMMERMANYiddish Language Rights in Congress Poland during the First World War: The Social Implications of Linguistic RecognitionMARCOS SILBERPART II: New ViewsThe Anti-Favus Campaign in Poland: Jewish Social MedicineRAKEFET ZALASHIKWładysław Raczkiewicz and Jewish IssuesJACEK PIOTROWSKIAfter Złote żniwa: An Attempt to Assess the Social Impact of the BookANTONI SUŁEKRighteousness and Evil: Jedwabne in the Polish TheatreKATHLEEN CIOFFIFrom Brzeżany to Afula: A Child’s Journey from Pre-War Poland to Israel in the 1950s: A Conversation with Shimon RedlichGABRIEL N. FINDERObituariesJacob GoldbergHasidism without Romanticism: Mendel Piekarz’s Path in the Study of HasidismPaula HymanVitka Kempner-KovnerRoman TotenbergZenon GuldonNotes on ContributorsIndex