Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 8

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. Jerzy Tomaszewski is Professor of History in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the Mordecai Anieliewicz Centre for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor in the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry, and the Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Part 1 Jews in independent Poland, 1918-1939: Jewish historiography on Polish Jewry in the interwar period, Ezra Mendelsohn; Britain, a British Jew, and Jewish relations with the new Poland - the making of the Polish minorities treaty of 1919, Mark Levene; the social consciousness of young Jews in interwar Poland, Alina Cala; Polish-Jewish relations as reflected in memoirs of the interwar period, Szyja Bronsztejn; Shtetl communities - another image, Annamaria Orla-Bukowska; the civil rights of Jews in Poland, 1918-1939, Jerzy Tomaszewski; the Jewish question in Polish religious periodicals in the second republio - the case of the Przeglad Katolicki, Franciszek Adamski; the image of the Jew in the Catholic press during the second republic, Anna Landau-Czajka; the Jewish press in the political life of the second republic, Andrzej Paczowski; Polish political parties and antisemitism, Jerzy Holzer; the Polish Kehillah elections of 1936 - a revolution re-examined, Robert Moses Shapiro; Jewish artisans, Zbigniew Landau; some aspects of the life of the Jewish proletariat in Poland during the interwar period, B. Garncarska-Kadary; the expulsion of Polish Jews from the third Reich in 1938, Karol Jonca; the Jewish boycott campaign against Nazi Germany and its culmination in the Halbersztadt trial, Alfred Wislicki; what shall we tell Miriam? a tale for the peasant, Rafael F. Scharf; Polyn - land of sages and tsadikim, Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk. Part 2 Review essays: why did assimilation fail in the kingdom of Poland between 1864 and 1897?, Stanislaus A. Blejwas; in the shadow of the facts, Dariusz Stola; readings and misreadings - a reply to Dariusz Stola, David Engel.

'The volume contains too many riches for a brief review to do them justice ... It is instructive to see how the subject of antisemitism is reflected in the pages of this volume, especially because of the number of contributions by Polish scholars, some of them young, to a field that only a few years ago was virtually taboo in Poland.' Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement