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Polin : Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900.

This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Polonsky, Antony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2002.
Colección:Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Editors and Advisers; Preface; Polin; Contents; A Note on Place Names; Note on Transliteration; Part I: Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900; Introduction; Printing the Talmud in Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Isaac of Troki's Studies of Rabbinic Literature; Polish Attitudes towards Jewish Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century; Sixteenth-Century Accounts of Purim Festivities; Jewish Popular Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century; The Struggle over Images in the Propaganda of the Frankist Movement; The Non-Christian Frankists.
  • Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's Attitude towards the FrankistsThe Influence of Frankism on Polish Culture; Tsadik and Ba'al Shem in East European Hasidism; Holy Men in their Infancy: The Childhood of Tsadikim in Hasidic Legends; One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire; How Far was Krochmal Influenced by the Gaon Sherira ben Hanina in his Description of the Development of Oral Torah?; The Messiah Son of Joseph according to Rabbi Zaddok Hacohen; Primordial Chaos and Creation in Gur Hasidism: The Sabbath that Preceded Creation.
  • Part II: New Views'Ahavat yehonatan': A Poem by Judah Leo Landau; Jakub Becal: King Jan III Sobieski's Jewish Factor; The Shtadlan of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Noble Advocate or Unbridled Opportunist?; Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe; The Society for the Advancement of Trade, Industry, and Crafts; Strangers in their Own Land: Polish Jews from Lublin to Kielce; Jewish Writers in Polish Literature; Auschwitz: Site of Memories; My Jedwabne; Part III: Review essays; Report of the Vatican Documents on the Second World War.
  • The Vatican Documents and the Holocaust: A Personal ReportYaffa Eliach's Eishyshok: Two Views; I. 'The new Jew Hitler has fashioned into being'; II. Ejszyszki Revisited, 1939.1945; Holocaust Survivors in Jadwiga Maurer's Short Stories; Polish Translations of Yiddish Literature Published in Wrocław; Book Reviews: David Patterson, The Hebrew Novel in Czarist Russia; Shmuel A. Arthur Cygielman, Jewish Autonomy in Poland and Lithuania until 1648; The Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, The Jews of Poland.
  • Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920Henryk Hoffman, Z Drohobycza do Ziemi Obiecanej; Hirsz Abramowicz, Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II; Robert Weinberg, Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928-1996; Anna Landau-Czajka, W jednym stali domu ... Koncepcje rozwiazania kwestii żydowskiej w publicystyce polskiej lat 1933-1939.