LEADER 03634nam 2200541 450 001 9910462674603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-909821-70-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000416180 035 $a(dli)HEB31317 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5485075 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781909821705 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5485075 035 $a(OCoLC)1048795311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000416180 100 $a20180822h20111993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFrom shtetl to socialism $estudies from Polin /$fedited by Antony Polonsky 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, Oregon :$cThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,$d2011. 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (xxxiii, 581 p., [16] leaves of plates )$cill. ; 225 1 $aThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 300 $a"Published for the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies, Oxford, an associate centre of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies." 311 $a1-874774-14-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aUntil 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and secular-was profound. An understanding of the history of the Jews of Poland is thus essential to a proper understanding of Jewish history. This book, comprising a selection of studies drawn from the first seven volumes of Polin, provides that understanding. Written by scholars from Europe (including Poland itself), Israel, and North America, it illuminates the most critical aspects of the history of the Jews in Poland and illustrates how these issues are being treated by the leading and most innovative scholars in the field. A broad spectrum of subjects is discussed, covering the origins and development of the community and the many crises it experienced from the earliest date of Jewish settlement in Poland to the establishment of Communist rule in postwar Poland. Maps and a chronology of Polish Jewish history are also provided, and the book is prefaced by an extensive introduction by Antony Polonsky, general editor of Polin. CONTRIBUTORS: Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Israel Bartal, David Biale, Eugene C. Black, Jan Blonski, Norman Davies, David Engel, Jacob Goldberg, Gershon David Hundert, Krystyna Kersten, Stefan Kieniewicz, Pawel Korzec, Ewa Kurek-Lesik, Magdalena Opalski, Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Eugenia Prokopowna, Laura Quercioli-Mincer, M. J. Rosman, Szymon Rudnicki, Pawel Samus, Robert Moses Shapiro, Chone Shmeruk, Shaul Stampfer, Michael C. Steinlauf, Pawel Szapiro, Jean-Charles Szurek, Janusz Tazbir, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Paul Wexler, Anna Zuk 410 0$aLittman library of Jewish civilization (Series) 606 $aJews$zPoland$xHistory 606 $aJews$zPoland$xCivilization 607 $aPoland$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xCivilization. 676 $a943.8/004924 702 $aPolonsky$b Antony 712 02$aInstitute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England) 712 02$aOxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462674603321 996 $aFrom shtetl to socialism$92137144 997 $aUNINA