Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36

Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky and Brian Horowitz, of 'Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe' (2016), and has published widely on Polish Jewish issues. Among several prestigious fellowships, she has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, and the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. 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 Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet, and Antony Polonsky1. Childhood and FamilyChildren and Childhood in Hasidic Courts before 1939 Gadi SagivRepresentations of Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Literature Roten Preger-WagnerThe Beautiful Manor House: Glimpses of Jewish Childhood in the Galician Countryside Yehoshua EckerAdvocacy and Practice in CENTOS Journals Sean Martin2. The Medical Treatment of ChildrenThe Child in Traditional Jewish Medicine around 1900 Marek TuszewickiNewborn Care and Survival among Jews in Early Modern Poland Zvi Eckstein and Anat VaturiWho Nursed the Jewish Babies? Wet-Nursing among Jews in the Late Russian Empire Ekaterina OleshkevichTOZ Summer Camps: Modern Welfare for Weak and Exhausted Jewish Children in Poland, 1924–1939 Rakefet Zalashik3. The Educational ExperienceWhat Kind of Self Can a Pupil’s Letter Reveal? The Tarbut School in Nowy Dwór, 1934–1935 David Assaf and Yael DarrState Schools as Polish–Jewish Contact Zones: The Case of Tarnów Agnieszka WierzcholskaWorking Children and young People as Seen by Contributors to Mały Przegląd Anna Landau-CzajkaThrough Their Own Eyes: Jewish youngsters Describe Their Holidays in Interwar Poland Ula Madej-KrupitskiAutograph Books of Polish Jewish Schoolgirls as Historical Documents Natalia AleksiunFrom Relief to Emancipation: Cecylia Klaftenowa’s vision for Jewish Girls in Interwar Lwów Sarah Ellen Zarrow4. Children and Trauma, 1914-1947Zionist Care and Education for Galician Refugee Children in Austria during the First World War Jan RybakJewish Children Seeking Help from Catholic Institutions in Kraków during the Holocaust Joanna SliwaIt was easier with a child than without’: Creating and Caring for Polish Jewish Families in the Wartime Soviet Union, 1939–1946 Sarah A. CramseyVoices of Soviet Jewish Children Documenting the Second World War Anna ShternshisJewish Child Survivorsin the Aftermath of the Holocaust Joanna MichlicThe Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, Poland, 1944–1947 Boaz Cohen5. Childhood in Post-1945 PolandBeyond Post-Holocaust Trauma: Polish Jewish Childhood in Dzierżoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–1950 Kamil KijekBlurred Spots of Revolution: Polish Communists of Jewish Origin and Their Early Political Socialization Łukasz BertramIndex