Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital : : Centering the Periphery /

Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital : : Centering the Periphery / / ed. by Nancy Sinkoff, Halina Goldberg.

Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899–1939). In this multidiscipl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Aleksiun, Natalia,
Bauer, Ela,
Cammy, Justin,
Heller, Daniel Kupfert,
Jakubczyk-Sleczka, Sylwia,
Kozlowska, Magdalena,
Maslak-Maciejewska, Alicja,
Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia,
Seidman, Naomi,
Shallcross, Bozena,
Silber, Marcos,
Stern, Zehavit,
Stolarska-Fronia, Malgorzata,
HerausgeberIn:
Goldberg, Halina,
Sinkoff, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.) :; 6 tables, 40 B-W images, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Place Names, Personal Names, and Transliterations
  • Introduction
  • PART I Tradition and Rebellion
  • Chapter 1 “The Holiday That Applies to Everyone” ararat kleynkunst theater and the challenge of populist modernism
  • Chapter 2 Elkhonen Vogler, Forgotten Poet of Yung-Vilne, in Vilna and the Litvak Borderlands
  • Chapter 3 Scandalous Glass House: on modernist transparency in architecture and life
  • Chapter 4 Jewish Expressionism between Discourses of Revival and Degeneration. The yung-yidish group
  • PART II Performers and Audiences
  • Chapter 5 The Theatrics of Bais Yaakov
  • Chapter 6 A Spectacle of Differences: Bracha zefira’s tour of poland in 1929
  • Chapter 7 Music of “the Foreign Nations” or “Native Culture” concert programming in interwar lwów as a discourse about jewish musical identities
  • Chapter 8 From Lodzermensz to Szmonces and Back: on the multidirectional flow of culture
  • Chapter 9 The Layered Meanings of an Unbuilt Monument: kraków jews commemorate the polish king casimir the great
  • Chapter 10 Mapping Modern Jewish Kraków: women—cultural production—space
  • Chapter 11 Movie Theaters and the Development of Jewish Public Space in Interwar Poland
  • Chapter 12 The Politics of Jewish Youth Movement Culture in Interwar Poland’s Eastern Borderlands
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Soundscapes of Modernity Program
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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