Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital
Title | Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Halina Goldberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781978836044 |
This book highlights the modernity of Polish Jewish culture through its literature, poetry, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the visual arts, and music in urban centers large and small. The contributors expertly reassert the belonging of Jews in Polish lands and showcase the multivalent texture of Polish Jewish cultural production before World War II.
Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital
Title | Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Halina Goldberg |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2023-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978836058 |
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 multidisciplinary essay collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture. Each essay presents readers with the extraordinary production and consumption of culture by Polish Jews in literature, film, cabaret, theater, the visual arts, architecture, and music. They show how this process was defined by a reciprocal cultural exchange that flourished between cities at the periphery—from Lwów and Wilno to Kraków and Łódź—and international centers like Warsaw, thereby illuminating the place of Polish Jews within urban European cultures. Companion website (https://polishjewishmusic.iu.edu)
Poland and Polin
Title | Poland and Polin PDF eBook |
Author | Irena Grudzińska-Gross |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN | 9783631666661 |
This volume reflects the discussions during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 2015). It focuses on the meaning of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, on Polish politics of memory, and on the developments in researching and teaching Polish-Jewish subjects.
Polish Jewry
Title | Polish Jewry PDF eBook |
Author | Marian Fuks |
Publisher | Warsaw : Interpress Publishers |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Art, Jewish |
ISBN |
This Was Not America
Title | This Was Not America PDF eBook |
Author | Elżbieta Janicka |
Publisher | Academic Studies PRess |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2022-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1644698420 |
From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s’ Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s’ Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish, and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that accompanies and courses through that history, of the living haunted by the dead. The story is told through a conversation, often contentious, between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the anthropologist and artist Elżbieta Janicka. It is illustrated with scores of photographs and documents.
The New Jewish Diaspora
Title | The New Jewish Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Zvi Y. Gitelman |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813576318 |
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow.
A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry
Title | A Social Analysis of Postwar Polish Jewry PDF eBook |
Author | Irena Hurwic-Nowakowska |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Holocaust survivors |
ISBN |
Results of a survey of Jews living in Warsaw, Łódź, and Dzierżoniów conducted in 1947-50 as part of a doctoral dissertation, not published until now. Of the 20,000 questionnaires distributed only 817 were returned, but they represent a wide range of the Polish Jewish population. Ch. 8 (pp. 125-143) deals with the effects of antisemitism on assimilated Jews. Many respondents felt that antisemitism was endemic to Poland, and expressed a desire to emigrate to Palestine. Some hoped to assimilate under a socialist regime while others felt there was no future for Jews there. They accused the Poles of a share in responsibility for the Holocaust and of widespread approval of its results. During the war and after, some Jews tried to conceal their origins but conversion was rare.