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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520006203321

Titolo

Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw / / edited by Antony Polonsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2008

ISBN

1-909821-58-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 337 p. )

Collana

Polin : Studies in Polish Jewry ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

940.531853841

Soggetti

Jews - Poland - Warsaw - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Statement from the editors -- Articles: A brief history of the Jews in Royal Prussia before 1772 / Zenon Nowak. From the Ghetto to modern culture : the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer / Ritchie Robertson. Jan Czyński and the question of equality of rights for all religious faiths in Poland / Adam Gałkowski. Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forty and four' or the dangers of playing with Kabbalahs / Joanna Rostropowicz Clark. Gender differentiation and education of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer. Vox populi, Vox dei : the centrality of Peretz in Jewish folkloristics / Mark W. Kiel. The Linas-Hatsedek charitable fraternity in Białystok, 1885-1939 / Tomasz Wiśniewski. The Jewish press in Kraków (1918-1939) / Czesław Brzoza. Ritual slaughter as a political issue / Szymon Rudnicki. Britain and the Jewish exodus from Poland following the Second World War / Ariel Joseph Kochavi. Henryk Grynberg calls Poland to account / Jósef Wróbel -- Life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: Three Ghetto sketches / Jan Marek Groński. My recollections of the deportation of Janusz Korczak / Marek Rudnicki. The death of Adam Czerniaków and Janusz Korczak's last journey / Jerzy Lewiński. Sister Wanda/ Anna Clarke -- Notes: The activities of the democratic societies and democratic party in defending Jewish rights in Poland on the eve of Hitler's invasion / Aharon Weiss. Documents dealing with the history of Jews in Galicia in Lwow Archives / Dora Katzenelson -- Review articles: The literary



afterlife of Polish Jewry / Zygmunt Bauman. Jewish themes in 'The beautiful Mrs Seidenmann' by Andrzej Szczpiorski / Laura Quercioli. About the 'Jews-in-Poland' Exhibition in Kraków June-October 1989 / Aleksander Zyga.