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

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Series IJS Studies in Judaica
IJS studies in Judaica.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis; Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792; Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820); Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization; Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe; Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880
Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier RabbiChapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914; Chapter 8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe; Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905-12; Chapter 10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe": Study for a Group Picture; Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War; Chapter 12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"?
Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and ParisChapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period; Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry; Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw; Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath; Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943
Chapter 18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the HolocaustChapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach; Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949; Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews; Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its ResidentsChapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed; Chapter 25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky; Name Index
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Subject Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History.
Jews.
Poland -- Warsaw.
History.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Dynner, Glenn, 1969- editor.
Guesnet, François, editor.
Polonsky, Antony, honoree.
Added Title Jewish metropolis
Other Form: Print version: Warsaw. the Jewish metropolis 9789004291805 (DLC) 2015005127 (OCoLC)903363613
ISBN 9789004291812 electronic book
9004291814 electronic book
9789004291805
9004291806