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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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Main Author: Polonsky, Antony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2002.
Series:Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Ser.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main topics being Frankist propaganda; non-Christian Frankists; Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Frankists; and the influence of Frankism on Polish culture.
Item Description:Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, with extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld.
Physical Description:1 online resource (575 pages)
ISBN:9781909821668
1909821667