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A history of East European Jews /
Presents a history of East European Jewry from its beginnings to the period after the Holocaust. It gives an overview of the demographic, political, socio-economic, religious and cultural conditions of Jewish communities in Poland, Russia, Bohemia and Moravia. Interesting themes include the story of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS
- Polish Princes' offer of protection from persectution
- Opponents of the Jews
- Economic success
- Social structure and self-administration of the Jews
- Learning and culture
- Jews as intermediaries between town and country
- Golden age for the Jews in Poland?
- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE
- Catastrophe of 1648
- Consequences of the catastrophe
- Kabbala
- Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank
- Popular piety of Hasidism
- Origins of the Ostjuden
- 'Shtetl'
- Contacts between Jews and non-Jews: Jewish peddlers and innkeepers
- Symbiosis diminishes
- Jews in the partitions of Poland
- Reaction of the Jews to the new political, intellectual, and religious conditions
- Tsarist empire and the Jews
- East European Jews outside Tsarist rule
- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY
- Transformation of the traditional intermediary function
- 'Expulsion' and 'restructuring'
- Luftmenshn
- Transformation of the occupational structure and new intermediary activities
- Competition to oust rivals from the market and anti-Semitism
- Haskala: the Jewish enlightenment
- Assimilation and acculturation
- 'Necktied' and 'kaftaned' Jews
- By way of an example: Jews in Warsaw and Łódź
- Jewish family
- Men and women in Jewish society
- Jewish upbringing
- Everyday religious customs
- Synagogue and community organizations
- Increasing conflicts with the non-Jewish world
- Socialism, Zionism, new Jewish identity
- Immigration as an attempt to find a new homeland
- Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina
- Positive model with contradictions: Hungary
- Different attitudes to the emancipation of the Jews in Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria
- 'Ritual murder': the case of Bohemia and Moravia
- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE
- Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union
- East European Jewish nationality and new waves of anti-Semitism: the Jews in Poland between the two world wars
- Precarious situation in individual East European countries
- Attempted extermination of the Jews
- Jews in postwar Poland: new suffering and new hope
- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY.