Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 18
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Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 18
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language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-29
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 18 written by and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-29 with Social Science categories.
Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, 'as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative', has only recently begun. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women's experiences in Eastern Europe. The volume is edited by Paula Hyman of Yale University, a leading figure in Jewish women's history in the United States, and by ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis University, author of a prize-winning study on Jewish divorce in nineteenth-century Russia. Their Introduction provides a much-needed historiographic survey that summarizes the major work in the field and highlights the lacunae. Their contributors, following this lead, have attempted to go beyond mere description of what women experienced to explore how gender constructed distinct experiences, identities, and meanings. In seeking to recover lost achievements and voices and place them into a broader analytical framework, this volume is an important first step in the rethinking of east European Jewish history with the aid of new insights gleaned from the research on gender. As in earlier volumes of Polin, substantial space is given, in 'New Views', to recent research in other areas of Polish-Jewish studies, and there is a book review section.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 23
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Author : Michal Galas
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-02
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 23 written by Michal Galas and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with History categories.
Kraków—one of the great centres of Jewish culture in east-central Europe—has always had a special place in the hearts of its Jewish inhabitants, much more so than was ever the case elsewhere in Poland. Considering Jewish life in the city from a wide range of social and cultural perspectives, primarily in the last two centuries, the contributors to this volume present a fascinating detailed panorama to explain why this should have been the case.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 20
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Author : Gabriel N. Finder
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-29
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 20 written by Gabriel N. Finder and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-29 with History categories.
The reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish-Jewish relations. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the topic.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 33
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Author : François Guesnet
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-06
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 33 written by François Guesnet and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-06 with Social Science categories.
Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of Jewish religious life in Poland. Approaches deriving from the anthropology, history, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology of religion have replaced the methodologies of social or political history that were applied in the past, offering fascinating new perspectives. The well-established interest in hasidism continues, albeit from new angles, but topics that have barely been considered before are well represented here too. Women’s religious practice gains new prominence, and a focus on elites has given way to a consideration of the beliefs and practices of ordinary people. Reappraisals of religious responses to secularization and modernity, both liberal and Orthodox, offer more nuanced insights into this key issue. Other research areas represented here include the material history of Jewish religious life in eastern Europe and the shift of emphasis from theology to praxis in the search for the defining quality of religious experience. The contemporary reassessments in this volume, with their awareness of emerging techniques that have the potential to extract fresh insights from source materials both old and new, show how our understanding of what it means to be Jewish is continuing to expand.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 32
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Author : François Guesnet
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 32 written by François Guesnet and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Social Science categories.
In the Polish lands, musicians of Jewish origin have produced an astonishing variety of music of all genres. Offering a multi-disciplinary thematic approach to this creativity, this volume considers cantorial and religious music; Jews in popular culture; Jews in the classical music scene; the Holocaust reflected in Jewish music; and klezmer in Poland today.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 31
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Author : François Guesnet
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-19
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 31 written by François Guesnet and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-19 with Social Science categories.
In the early 1900s the Jewish communities of Poland and Hungary were the largest in the world and the most vibrant, yet despite the obvious similarities historians have preferred to highlight the differences and emphasize the central European character of Hungarian Jewry. Collectively, these essays offer a very different perspective.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 29
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Author : Natalia Aleksiun
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-29
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 29 written by Natalia Aleksiun and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-29 with History categories.
Historiography formed an unusually important component of the popular culture and heritage of east European Jewry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of social, economic, and political upheaval, and for the emerging class of educated Jews the writing and reading of Jewish history provided not only intellectual but also emotional and moral sustenance. Facing an insecure future became easier with an understanding of the past, and of the Jewish place in that past. This volume is devoted to the development of Jewish historiography in the three east European centres—Congress Poland, the Russian empire, and Galicia—that together contained the majority of world Jewry at that time. Drawing widely on the multilingual body of scholarly and popular literature that emerged in that turbulent environment, the contributors to this volume attempt to go beyond the established paradigms in the study of Jewish historiography, and specifically to examine the relationship between the writing of Jewish history and of non-Jewish history in eastern Europe. In doing so they expose the tension between the study of the Jewish past in a communal setting and in a wider, regional, setting that located Jews firmly in the non-Jewish political, economic, and cultural environment. They also explore the relationship between ‘history’—seen as the popular understanding of the past—and ‘scholarly history’—interpretation of the past through the academic study of the sources, which lays claim to objectivity and authority. The development of Jewish historical scholarship grew out of the new intellectual climate of the Haskalah, which encouraged novel modes of thinking about self and others and promoted critical enquiry and new approaches to traditional sources. At the same time, however, in response to what the traditionalists perceived as secular research, an Orthodox historiography also emerged, driven not only by scholarly curiosity but also by the need to provide a powerful counterweight in the struggle against modernity. In fact, east European Jewish historiography has undergone many methodological, thematic, and ideological transformations over the last two centuries. Even today, east European Jewish historiography revisits many of the questions of importance to scholars and audiences since its emergence: how Jews lived, both within the narrow Jewish world and in contact with the wider society; the limits of Jewish insularity and integration; expressions of persecution and anti-Jewish violence; and also Jewish contributions to the societies and states of eastern Europe. Many challenges still remain: questions of the purpose of the research, its ideological colouring, and its relevance for contemporary Jewish communities. The fruit of research in many disciplines and from different methodological points of view, this volume has much to offer scholars of modern Jewry trying to understand how east European Jews saw themselves as they struggled with the concepts of modernity and national identity and how their history continues to be studied and discussed by an international community of scholars.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 28
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Author : Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-10
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 28 written by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the Enlightenment, the cultural creativity of Polish Jews has found trilingual expression—in Yiddish, Hebrew, and increasingly in Polish—but under communism the mutual and dynamic interaction between the cultural systems was little studied. This collection is the first to examine Jewish literatures in Poland from the point of view of both linguistic and geographical diversity. The emphasis here is on the interwar years, but earlier and later material is also included.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 30
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Author : Eliyana R. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-11
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 30 written by Eliyana R. Adler and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with History categories.
An emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience, yet the majority of historians of east European Jewish society treat educational institutions and pursuits as merely a reflection of the surrounding culture. The essays in this volume seek to address this gap by presenting education as an active and potent force for change, highlighting the interrelationship between Jewish educational endeavours, the Jewish community, and external economic, political, and social forces.
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 27
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Author : Glenn Dynner
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-14
Polin Studies In Polish Jewry Volume 27 written by Glenn Dynner and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-14 with History categories.
The Kingdom of Poland had the largest concentration Jews in eastern Europe and a liberal policy towards them that engendered cultural and political movements of all sorts. Hasidic courts flourished despite the opportunities of modernization, yet modernizing maskilim similarly established institutions that influenced Jewish society in a completely different direction. Later came integrationism, Zionism, Jewish socialism, and cultural autonomy. The resulting ferment was a critical factor in shaping the modern Jewish experience.