Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 34

Co-editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe, Polin, 34 (2022), and, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. 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.

• Introduction - François Guesnet and Antony PolonskyPART I. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYThe Transfer of Tradition from West to East: The ‘Takkanot Shum’ between Ashkenaz and Poland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period - Rainer Josef BarzenThe Beginnings of Jewish Self-Government in Poland: An Entangled History - Jürgen HeydeThe Emergence of Medinat Mehren: Establishing Jewish Supra-Communal Governance in Early Modern Moravia and Its Central European Contexts - Martin BorysekThe Eastern European Pinkas Kahal: Form and Function - Adam TellerThe Role of Legal Settlements in Developing Christian–Jewish Relations in Polish Towns and Cities - Hanna WęgrzynekBetween the Council and the Town Hall: The Functioning of the Kahal in a New Town in the Seventeenth Century. The Case of Slutsk - Maria CieślaPersonal Composition of the Council of Four Lands, 1595–1764 - Judith KalikThe Activity of Jewish Self-Government Representatives at Sejmiki and the Sejm between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Anna Michalowska-MycielskaPermanent Crisis: The Decline of Territorial Jewish Self-Government in the Crown in the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries - Adam KaźmierczykPART II. THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURYBurying the Dead, Saving the Community: Jewish Burial Societies as Informal Centres of Jewish Self-Government - Cornelia AustDid Jewish Self-Government Exist in the Kingdom of Poland between 1815 and 1915? - Artur Markowski‘Masters of Their Own Offerings No More’: Jewish Perceptions of the Transformation of Jewish Self-Government in the Kingdom of Poland - François GuesnetSynagogues in the System of Jewish Self-Government in Tsarist Russia - Vladimir LevinStewards of the City? Jews on Kraków City Council in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Hannah Kozińska-WittPolish–Jewish Relations in the Municipal Council of the City of Lwów during the Period of Galician Autonomy, 1870–1914 - Łukasz SrokaPART III. FROM 1914 TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR‘One of Them’ as ‘One of Us’: Jewish Demands of National Autonomy as a Tool to Achieve Civic Equality during the First World War - Marcos SilberThe Struggle in the Polish Parliament for Jewish Autonomy and Jewish Self-Government - Szymon RudnickiJewish Involvement in Local Kehillot, the Sejm, and Municipalities in Interwar Poland - Antony PolonskyThe End of Jewish Self-Governance: ‘Jewish National Councils’ in Soviet Belarus in the Interwar Period - Andrej ZamoiskiiPART IV. NEW VIEWSA Disenchanted Elijah: The First World War, Conspiracy Theories, and Allegory in S. An-sky’s Destruction of Galicia - Marc CaplanThe ‘Patriotic Left’ and the ‘Jewish Question’ at the Dawn of the Second Republic - Paul Brykczyński