Categorically Jewish Distinctly Polish

Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800859074

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Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish by Moshe Rosman Pdf

Moshe Rosman's revolutionary approach has become a cornerstone of Polish Jewish historiography. Challenging conventions, he asserts that the 'marriage of convenience' between the Jews and the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dynamic relationship that, though punctuated by crisis and persecution, developed into a saga of overall achievement and stability. With that fundamental message this book forges a thematic survey of Jewish history in early modern Poland. These essays, written by Rosman over the course of a distinguished career, have all been updated and enhanced with new detail and nuanced arguments, taking account not only of new archival material and research but also of the ongoing evolution of the author’s own knowledge and perspectives. Some appear here in English for the first time. The volume's structure highlights key topics for understanding the Polish Jewish past: relations between Jews and other Poles; Jewish communal life; Polish Jewish women; and hasidism. One section analyses how this past has been presented in both scholarly and popular modes. The essays are crafted to place them in dialogue with each other. Analytical introductions weigh their significance in the light of modern and postmodern Jewish and Polish historiography. An extensive general introduction sets the context of the history portrayed here, while a thoughtful conclusion elucidates the larger motifs that emerge.

Author : Ariel Evan Mayse
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503638983

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Laws of the Spirit by Ariel Evan Mayse Pdf

The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. In this book, Ariel Evan Mayse grapples with one of Hasidism's most vexing questions: how did a religious movement known for its radical views about immanence, revelation, and the imperative to serve God with joy simultaneously produce strict adherence to the structures and obligations of Jewish law? Exploring the movement from its emergence in the mid-1700s until 1815, Mayse argues that the exceptionality of Hasidism lies not in whether its leaders broke or upheld rabbinic norms, but in the movement's vivid attempt to rethink the purpose of Jewish ritual and practice. Rather than focusing on the commandments as law, he turns to the methods and vocabulary of ritual studies as a more productive way to reckon with the contradictions and tensions of this religious movement as well as its remarkable intellectual vitality. Mayse examines the full range of Hasidic texts from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, from homilies and theological treatise to hagiography, letters, and legal writings, reading them together with contemporary theories of ritual. Arguing against the notion that spiritual integrity requires unshackling oneself from tradition, Laws of the Spirit is a sweeping attempt to rethink the meaning and significance of religious practice in early Hasidism.

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9780197687215

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Becoming Post-Communist by Eli Lederhendler Pdf

"Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today's vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region-Jews and non-Jews alike-to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events"--

Author : Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius,Piotr Piotrowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317132042

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From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius,Piotr Piotrowski Pdf

Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which the museum could use its collections, its cultural authority, its auratic space and resources to give voice to the underprivileged, and to take an active part in contemporary and at times controversial issues. Drawing together both major museum professionals and academics, it examines the theoretical concept of the critical museum, and uses case studies of engaged art institutions from different parts of the world. It reaches beyond the usual focus on western Europe, America, and ’the World’, including voices from, as well as about, eastern European museums, which have rarely been discussed in museum studies books so far.

Author : Erica Lehrer,Michael Meng
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253015068

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Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland by Erica Lehrer,Michael Meng Pdf

Essays on the restoration and revival of Jewish sites in post-Holocaust, post-Communist Poland: “Highly recommended.” —Choice In a time of national introspection regarding the country’s involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with other remembered minorities, engaging in complex negotiations with local, regional, national, and international groups and interests. With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland. “Evokes a revolution—the word is not too strong—in the possibilities, new goals, and shifting facts on the ground associated with Jewish history and lives in Poland today.” —Canadian Jewish News

Author : Ruth von Bernuth,Eric Downing,William C. Donahue,Martha B. Helfer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140790

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Nexus 5 by Ruth von Bernuth,Eric Downing,William C. Donahue,Martha B. Helfer Pdf

Special volume treating exemplars of the vast number of texts arising from historic and imaginary encounters between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, from the early modern period to the present.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780813596082

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The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers’ rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites. The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. In an account that is part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish museums and heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade, from Krakow to Kiev, and from Warsaw to New York, to discover which stories of the Jewish experience are told and which are silenced. As he travels to thirteen different locations, participates in tours, displays, and public programs, and gleans insight from local historians, he juxtaposes the historical record with the stories presented in heritage tourism. What he finds raises provocative questions about the heritage tourism industry and its role in determining how we perceive Jewish history and identity. This book offers a unique perspective on the importance of collective memory and the dangers of collective forgetting.

Author : Rebecca Lynn Winer,Federica Francesconi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814346327

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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present by Rebecca Lynn Winer,Federica Francesconi Pdf

A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.

Author : Aleksander Hertz,Lucjan Dobroszycki
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0810107589

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The Jews in Polish Culture by Aleksander Hertz,Lucjan Dobroszycki Pdf

"A richly perceptive sociological consideration of the Jewish community as a caste in 19th- and early-20th-century Poland... A book that should be part of any study of modern Polish culture or Diaspora Jewry." --Kirkus Reviews

Author : Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0874516021

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Poles and Jews by Magdalena Opalski,Yiśraʼel Barṭal Pdf

Examines Polish and Jewish perceptions of the rapprochement culminating in Polish national insurrection against Czarist Russia in 1863.

Author : Mieczysław B. Biskupski,Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 187477496X

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Polish-Jewish Relations in North America by Mieczysław B. Biskupski,Antony Polonsky Pdf

A bold examination of the issues shaping Polish-Jewish relations in North America, and particularly of how the Holocaust continues to distort the structure of mutual perceptions. Stereotyping on both sides is confronted head-on, with a number of chapters describing attempts to go beyond stereotypes and past conflicts and to concentrate instead on what has linked Poles and Jews in their long history.

Author : Ruth von Bernuth
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479828449

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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm by Ruth von Bernuth Pdf

1. How the Wise Men got to Gotham: the fools of Chelm take Manhattan -- 2. How foolish Is Jewish culture? fools, Jews, and the Carnivalesque Culture of early modernity -- 3. Through the land of foolish culture: from Laleburg to Schildburg -- 4. Gentile fools speaking Yiddish: the Schildbergerbuch for Jewish readers -- 5. The enlightenment goes East: how Democritus of Abdera got to Galicia -- 6. The geography of folly: the folklorists and the invention of Chelm -- 7. Chelm tales after World War One in German and Yiddish: "Our Schilda" and "Our Chelm Correspondent

Author : Marcin Wodziński
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400889563

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Historical Atlas of Hasidism by Marcin Wodziński Pdf

The first cartographic reference book on one of today’s most important religious movements Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring sixty-one large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world wars and the Holocaust; and Hasidism's remarkable postwar rebirth. Historical Atlas of Hasidism demonstrates how geography has influenced not only the social organization of Hasidism but also its spiritual life, types of religious leadership, and cultural articulation. It focuses not only on Hasidic leaders but also on their thousands of followers living far from Hasidic centers. It examines Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century until today, and draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records to present the most complete picture yet of this thriving and diverse religious movement. Historical Atlas of Hasidism is visually stunning and easy to use, a magnificent resource for anyone seeking to understand Hasidism's spatial and spiritual dimensions, or indeed anybody interested in geographies of religious movements past and present. Provides the first cartographic interpretation of Hasidism Features sixty-one maps and numerous illustrations Covers Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its eighteenth-century origins to today Charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion, courts and prayer houses, modern resurgence, and much more Offers the first in-depth analysis of Hasidism's egalitarian--not elitist—dimensions Draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records

Author : Marian Fuks
Publisher : Warsaw : Interpress Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art, Jewish
ISBN : UOM:39015046358654

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Polish Jewry by Marian Fuks Pdf

Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909821118

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Founder of Hasidism by Moshe Rosman Pdf

Moshe Rosman's award-winning research supplies the history behind the legend of the Ba'al Shem Tov and thus changes the master-narrative of hasidism.