Jews And Heretics In Catholic Poland

Author : Magda Teter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139448819

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Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland by Magda Teter Pdf

Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The 'infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity' became symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments of its defence against all of its other adversaries. This process helped form a Polish identity that led, in the case of Jews, to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of Jews from the category of Poles. This book portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active participants in Polish society who as allies of the nobles, placed in positions of power, had more influence than has been recognised.

Author : Ronald E. Modras
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9789058231291

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The Catholic Church and Antisemitism by Ronald E. Modras Pdf

This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture. In that struggle, every assimilated Jew served as both a symbol and a potential agent of security.

Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Jews
ISBN : HARVARD:HW4OLP

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History of the Jews: From the Chmielnicki persecution of the Jews in Poland, 1648 C.E., to the present time, 1870 C.E by Heinrich Graetz Pdf

Author : Stanisław Krajewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN : UOM:39015062516896

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Poland and the Jews by Stanisław Krajewski Pdf

Author : Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624830

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The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History by Antony Polonsky Pdf

A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.

Author : William W. Hagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884921

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Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 by William W. Hagen Pdf

The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.

Author : Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Emily Michelson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691233413

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Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews by Emily Michelson Pdf

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. In Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews, Emily Michelson demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism. Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscripts, Michelson reconstructs the dynamics of weekly forced preaching in Rome. As the Catholic Church began to embark on worldwide missions, sermons to Jews offered a unique opportunity to define and defend its new triumphalist, global outlook. They became a point of prestige in Rome. The city’s most important organizations invested in maintaining these spectacles, and foreign tourists eagerly attended them. The title of “Preacher to the Jews” could make a man’s career. The presence of Christian spectators, Roman and foreign, was integral to these sermons, and preachers played to the gallery. Conversionary sermons also provided an intellectual veneer to mask ongoing anti-Jewish aggressions. In response, Jews mounted a campaign of resistance, using any means available. Examining the history and content of sermons to Jews over two and a half centuries, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews argues that conversionary preaching to Jews played a fundamental role in forming early modern Catholic identity.

Author : Bohdan W. Oppenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000085703340

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The Polish Catholic Church and the Struggle Against Anti-semitism by Bohdan W. Oppenheim Pdf

Author : Mordecai Paldiel
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665719735

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Poland, the Jews and the Holocaust by Mordecai Paldiel Pdf

Up to 1939, when Poland came under German domination, it was the center of the European Jewish world, filled with a large Jewish population that had lived on Polish soil for over nine centuries, and developed a vibrant self-sustaining social and religious community culture. During the German occupation of World War II, close to 3 million Polish Jews were exterminated. Poland was where the Nazis established most of their ghettos and all death camps. It was where the railroad tracks converged, bringing hundreds of thousand Jews from the remotest corners of Europe to feed the Nazi death machine. Thousands of Poles risked their lives to save Jews by mostly sheltering them, while most others were passive onlookers, fearful for their lives to get involved, and too many others collaborated with the hated enemy in eliminating Jews. Mordecai Paldiel, a historian of the Holocaust, examines the important role Jews played in Poland in the years before Germans occupied the country. He also examines the antisemitism that existed in Poland before the Nazis arrived. Just as important, he highlights the various responses of Poles as witnesses of the German extermination of Jews, including the thousands who, in spite of the dangers to themselves, did their utmost to save Jews from the German-orchestrated Holocaust.

Author : Christopher Garbowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476612454

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Religious Life in Poland by Christopher Garbowski Pdf

This book provides a concise historical outline of religion in Poland up until its entry into the European Union in 2004, together with a longer presentation of contemporary religious issues. Albeit largely mono-ethnic and overwhelmingly Catholic after the loss of its large Jewish population to the Holocaust, and subsequent post-World War II border shifts, traces of an historic diversity remain in Poland to date, playing a greater role than mere numbers would suggest. Poland's fairly robust religious life is affected by the country's continuing modernization and its various institutions, and this is discussed within a broad context. One of the unfortunate legacies of decades of communism is a stunted civil society; while at different levels there are conflicts involving religion, at the grassroots it is one of the few forces building much needed trust in present-day Polish society.

Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Magda Teter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674052970

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Sinners on Trial by Magda Teter Pdf

Teter casts new light on the most infamous type of sacrilege, the accusation against Jews for desecrating the eucharistic wafer. The book recounts dramatic stories of torture, trial, and punishment.

Author : Jeremy Cohen,Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800345416

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Rethinking European Jewish History by Jeremy Cohen,Moshe Rosman Pdf

The major cultural, ideological, and social changes that have occurred in Europe in the past century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases, and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of this reassessment. It points to a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.

Author : R. Michael
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230611177

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A History of Catholic Antisemitism by R. Michael Pdf

Moving from the Catholic Church's pagan origins, through the Roman era, middle ages, and Reformation to the present, Robert Michael here provides a definitive history of Catholic antisemitism.