Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and indexes.
Contents
The geography of the Jewish imagination : po-lin among trees with leaves from the Gemara -- Legends of acceptance : segregation versus involvement -- The legend of Abraham the Jew, King of Poland -- The legend of Esther the Jewess and King Casimir the Great of Poland -- My eyes shed tears, because the enemy has overcome : the transformation of legends of origin into legends of destruction.