Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present

François Guesnet, Jerzy Tomaszewski z"l (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

726 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
9789004191365 (ISBN)

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Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern European Jewish political encounter.

This source-reader invites you to encounter the world of one thousand years of Jewish self-government in eastern Europe. It tells about the beginnings in the Middle Ages, delves into the unfolding of communal hierarchies and supra-communal representation in the early modern period, and reflects on the impact of the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and of growing state interference, as well as on the communist and post-communist periods. Translated into English from Hebrew, Latin, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, German, and other languages, in most cases for the first time, the sources illustrate communal life, the interdependence of civil and religious leadership, the impact of state legislation, Jewish-non-Jewish encounters, reform projects and political movements, but also Jewish resilience during the Holocaust.

François Guesnet, Dr.phil., Freiburg im Breisgau, is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London. His publications include Polnische Juden im 19. Jahrhundert (Böhlau, 1998), and, as co-editor, Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis (Brill 2015, paperback 2017). He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry. Jerzy Tomaszewski (1930-2014) was professor of History at the University of Warsaw and for many years the director of its Mordecai Anieliewicz Center for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews. Among his publications are Z dziejów Polesia 1921-1939: Zarys stosunków społeczno-ekonomycznych (Warsaw, 1963) and Ojczyzna nie tylko Polaków: Mniejszości narodowe w Polsce w latach 1918-1939 (Warsaw, 1985).

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 The Medieval Period

Hanna Zaremska

2 Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, 1507–1795

Adam Teller

3 The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, 1772–1815

Cornelia Aust

4 The Prussian Partition, 1815–1914

Michał Szulc

5 Jewish Self-Government in Galicia, 1815–1914

Wacław Wierzbieniec

6 The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1915

Artur Markowski

7 Imperial Russia’s North-Western and South-Western Provinces, 1815–1914

Andrei Zamoiski

8 World War One and Independent Poland, 1914–1939

Piotr Kendziorek

9 Poland after the Second World War, 1944–2020

August Grabski with Piotr Grudka

10 Epilogue: Refractions of Jewish Self-Government under German Occupation in the Second World War

Marcin Urynowicz

Glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2022
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1459 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9789004191365 / 9789004191365
Zustand	Neuware