Jewish Poland Legends Of Origin

Author : Haya Bar-Itzhak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343920

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Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin by Haya Bar-Itzhak Pdf

The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are concealed in undocumented shadows of history. What survived are legends of origin that early chroniclers, historians, writers, and folklore scholars transcribed, thus contributing to their preservation. According to the legendary chronicles Jews resided in Poland for a millennium and developed a vibrant community. Haya Bar-Itzhak examines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community creates its own chronicle, how it structures and consolidates its identity through stories about its founding, and how this identity varies from age to age. Bar-Itzhak also examines what happened to these legends after the extermination of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust, when the human space they describe no longer exists except in memory. For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust, the legends of origin undergo a fascinating transformation into legends of destruction. Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin brings to light the more obscure legends of origin as well as those already well known. This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.

Author : Haya Bar-Itzhak
Publisher : Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814343910

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Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin by Haya Bar-Itzhak Pdf

Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.

Author : Aleksander Eliasberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Jewish legends
ISBN : 8378660923

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Legends of Polish Jews by Aleksander Eliasberg Pdf

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520238442

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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century by Gershon David Hundert Pdf

Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.

Author : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317111016

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Jewish Topographies by Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt Pdf

How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and lived Jewish spaces and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Netivot, Thornhill, an Orthodox suburb of Toronto, or new virtual sites of Jewish (Second) Life on the Internet, and learns about the Jewish landkentenish movement in Interwar Poland, the Jewish connection to the sea and the culinary landscapes of Russian Jews in New York. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this anthology introduces new methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317471714

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Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions by Raphael Patai Pdf

This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Author : Karen Underhill
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253057297

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Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity by Karen Underhill Pdf

In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.

Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Dr Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479727

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Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany by Dr Dean Phillip Bell Pdf

Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In this way, Jews created community structure and projected that structure into the future. But Jews also used the past as a means to contest the marginalization threatened by broader developments in the Christian society in which they lived. As the Reformation threw into relief serious questions about authority and tradition and as Jews continued to suffer from anti-Jewish mentality and politics, narration of the past allowed Jews to re-inscribe themselves in history and contemporary society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including chronicles, liturgical works, books of customs, memorybooks, biblical commentaries, rabbinic responsa and community ledgers, this study offers a timely reassessment of Jewish community and identity during a frequently turbulent era. It engages, but then redirects, important discussions by historians regarding the nature of time and the construction and role of history and memory in pre-modern Europe and pre-modern Jewish civilization. This book will be of significant value, not only to scholars of Jewish history, but anyone with an interest in the social and cultural aspects of religious history.

Author : Alina Molisak,Shoshana Ronen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527502673

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The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives by Alina Molisak,Shoshana Ronen Pdf

Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Peretz’s work, but, rather, discusses the oeuvre of other unique authors in the cultural space of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe generally, and in Poland particularly. The book looks at this issue from three aspects, namely the literal, cultural, and historical, and also examines the dialogue of Polish Jewish literature with other languages and cultures.

Author : Bernard Dov Weinryb
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 082760016X

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The Jews of Poland by Bernard Dov Weinryb Pdf

The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books records the development of this Jewish community. It attempts to capture the uniqueness of each period in the history of this community. In recounting the saga of Polish Jewry, the book endeavors to see Polish Jews as human beings acting and reacting humanly to the exigencies of life with courage and weakness, high ideals, beliefs, and sacrifices, on one hand, and human frailty, passions, and ambitions, on the other.

Author : Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0742545180

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Jews in the Early Modern World by Dean Phillip Bell Pdf

Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographic changes experienced by Jews around the globe and assesses the impact of those changes on Jewish communal and social structures, religious and cultural practices, and relations with non-Jews.

Author : Andreas Kilcher,Gabriella Safran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253019646

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Writing Jewish Culture by Andreas Kilcher,Gabriella Safran Pdf

“Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

Author : Jessica L. Carr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438480848

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The Hebrew Orient by Jessica L. Carr Pdf

In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners.

Author : Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789627800

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The Jews in Poland and Russia by Antony Polonsky Pdf

A comprehensive survey—socio-political, economic, and religious—of Jewish life in Poland and Russia. Wherever possible, contemporary Jewish writings are used to illustrate how Jews felt and reacted to new situations and ideas.