Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35

Israel Bartal is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and the former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 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. Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and director of the Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness. He is the author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012).

• IntroductionIsrael Bartal, François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Scott UryI. Before ZionismHasidic Communities in the Land of Israel in the Nineteenth CenturyUriel GellmanPolish Distinctiveness in Jerusalem, Congress Poland, and Western Prussia in the Nineteenth CenturyYochai Ben-GhedaliaII. From the Beginnings of Zionism to the Second World WarBetween Attraction and Repulsion, Disaster and Hope: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel before 1948Łukasz Tomasz SrokaZionism in Poland, Poland in ZionismAnna Landau-CzajkaThe Fourth Aliyah and the Fulfilment of Zionism in the Land of IsraelMeir ChazanNalewki Street in Tel Aviv? The Political Heritage of East European Jewry in the Yishuv and the State of IsraelGershon BaconBetween Tłomackie 13, Warsaw, and Kaplan 2, Tel Aviv: The Role of the East European Jewish Press in Shaping Israeli JournalismEla BauerJewish Politics Without Borders: How Ben-Gurion Won the Elections to the Zionist Congress of 1933Rona YonaA Bridge between West and East: Polish Economic Policy and the YishuvKatarzyna DziekanPalestine for the Third Time: Ksawery Pruszyński and the Emergence of IsraelWiesław PowagaIII. From the War to the Israeli Declaration of IndependenceImagined Motherland: Zionism in Poland after the HolocaustNatalia AleksiunBetween Hostility and Intimacy: Christian and Jewish Polish Citizens in the USSR, Iran, and PalestineMikhal DekelMordecai Tsanin: Yiddish Orphanhood in Israel and Afterlife in PolandMonika Adamczyk-GarbowskaIV. From Israeli Independence to the End of CommunismArt and Society between Poland and Israel: The Life and Work of Henryk Hechtkopf Hanna LernerYom-Tov Levinsky, Jewish Ritual, and Exile in Israeli CultureAdi SherzerIsrael Expunged: Communist Censorship of the Polish Catholic Press, 1945–1989Bożena SzaynokHomeland, State, and Language: The Integration of Polish Jews into IsraelElżbieta KossewskaThe Polish Exodus of 1968: Antisemitism, Dropouts, and Re-emigrants in Nowiny i KurierMiri FreilichV. From the End of Communism to TodayHome as a Place of No Return: Journeys to Poland in the Writings of Child Survivors and the Second and Third GenerationsEfraim SicherIsraelis? Poles? Blurring the Boundaries of Identity in Contemporary Israeli LiteratureShoshana RonenOther Family Stories: The Third Post-Holocaust Generation’s Journey to Poland Jagoda BudzikNeuland, or the Displacement of an Ideal: Israel in the Work of Eshkol NevoAlina MolisakIsrael and Poland Confront Holocaust MemoryYifat Gutman and Elazar BarkanIndex**