Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 7: Jewish Life in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw - Softcover

Antony Polonsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190411380X ISBN 13: 9781904113805

Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008

Synopsis

Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered in other articles include the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer, entitled From the Ghetto to Modern Culture ; Jan Czynski and the question of equal rights for all religious faiths; education of Jewish women in the nineteenth century; ritual slaughter as a political issue; and the Jewish press in Kraków in the inter-war years. CONTRIBUTORS Zygmunt Bauman, Czeslaw Brzoza, Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Anna Clarke, Adam Galkowski, Jan Marek Gronski, Dora Katzenelson, Mark W. Kiel, Ariel Joseph Kochavi, Jerzy Lewinski, Zenon Nowak, Laura Quercioli, Richie Robertson, Marek Rudnicki, Szymon Rudnicki, Shaul Stampfer, Aharon Weiss, Tomasz Wisniewski, Jósef Wróbel, Aleksander Zyga

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Review:

Without a doubt, an important contribution to the study of the folk and popular culture of Polish Jewry . . . Such an important collection of articles . . . must be read from cover to cover. --Itzik Gottesman, Forverts

This massive volume is a pioneering step in the study of popular Jewish culture in Poland . . . a fascinating collection. --Shulamith Z. Berger, AJL Newsletter

About the Author:

Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 190411380X
• ISBN 13: 9781904113805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Antony Polonsky