Warsaw : : the Jewish metropolis : essays in honor of the 75th birthday of professor Antony Polonsky / / edited by Glenn Dynner and Francois Guesnet.

• Superior document: IJS Studies in Judaica, Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Dynner, Glenn, 1969-; Guesnet, François,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: IJS studies in Judaica ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. This book is also available in paperback .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet -- 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792 / Hanna Węgrzynek -- 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820) / Cornelia Aust -- 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization / Ela Bauer -- 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe / Glenn Dynner -- 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880 / François Guesnet -- 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi / Shaul Stampfer -- 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914 / Nathan Cohen -- 8 In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe / Scott Ury -- 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–12 / Michael C. Steinlauf -- 10 “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture / Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov -- 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War / Robert Blobaum -- 12 The Capital of “Yiddishland”? / Kalman Weiser -- 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris / Gennady Estraikh -- 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period / Gershon Bacon -- 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry / Natalia Aleksiun -- 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw / Kenneth B. Moss -- 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940–1943 / Joshua D. Zimmerman -- 18 “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust / Havi Dreifuss -- 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach / Samuel Kassow -- 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944–1949 / Joanna B. Michlic -- 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews / Gabriel N. Finder -- 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust / David Engel -- 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents / Karen Auerbach -- 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed / Marci Shore -- 25 “Context is Everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern -- Name Index.