Polin : Focusing on Aspects and Experiences of Religion.

Addressing various aspects of Jewish life and religion, particularly in the last two centuries, this book examines different aspects of the Hasidic tradition; present-day contacts between Bobower Hasidism in New York and Bobowa in Poland; and how a rabbi trained in the Lithuanian tradition adapted t...

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Main Author: Polonsky, Antony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 1998.
Series:Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyrignt; Dedication; Editors and Advisers; Preface; Contents; Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names; Introduction; Part I: On Religion Aspects and Experiences; Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-War Poland; Tobacco and the Hasidim; 'A Thread of Blue': Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyn ́and his Search for Continuity in Response to Modernity; The Tarler rebbe of Łódź and his Medical Practice: Towards a History of Hasidic Life in Pre-First World War Poland; Aaron Menahem Mendel Guterman, the rebbe of Radzymin; A Pilgrimage from Bobowa to Bobowa.
  • On the Brink of Disaster: Hillel Zeitlin's Struggle for Jewish Survival in PolandAla from the Primer; The Congregation of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw: Its Changing Social Composition and Ideological Affiliations; The Progressive Synagogue in Lwów; The Synagogues of Łódź; Part II: New Views; Conspiracy Theories and the Reception of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Poland; Polish Influences on British Policy Regarding Jewish Rescue Efforts in Poland 1939-1945; The Concerns of an Immigrant Rabbi: The Life and Sermons of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz.
  • Trunk's Poyln: Its Place in Jewish Polish HistoryJewish-Ukrainian Relations in Inter-War Poland as Reflected in Some Ukrainian Publications; Jewish Martyrdom in the Works of Adolf Rudnicki; The Jewish Question in Poland: Views Expressed in the Catholic Press between the Two World Wars; Part III: Reviews; History, Experience, and Democracy. István Bibó Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944-Fifty Years Later; The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust; Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians; A New Account of the 'March Events'
  • Andrzej Żbikowski, Żydzi krakowscy i ich gmina w latach 1869-1919Mojżesz Schorr i jego listy do Ludwika Gumplowicza, ed. Rafaeł Żebrowski; Świat pod kontrola.: Wybór materiałów z archiwum cenzury rosyjskiej w Warszawie, ed. Maria Prussak; Andrzej Jezierski (ed.), Historia Polski w liczbach: Ludność, terytorium; Rainer Erb (ed.), Die Legende vom Ritualmord: Zur Geschichte der Blutbeschuldigung gegen Juden; Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa; Regina Renz, Społeczeństwo małomiasteczkowe w województwie kieleckim 1918-1939, Krzysztof Urbański, Kieleccy Żydzi.
  • Christopher Clark, The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728-1941Jacek J. Jadacki and Barbara Markiewicz (eds.), A mądrości zło nie przemoże; Death Books from Auschwitz: Remnants, ed. Jerzy Dębski et al.; Norman Salsitz, as told to Richard Skolnik, A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Remembering Kolbuszowa; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; Barbara and Leszek Amatys and Wiesl/aw Stradomski, Historia filmu polskiego, ii: 1930-1939; Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans; Felicja Karay, Death Comes in Yellow: Skarżysko-Kamienna Slave Labour Camp