Jewish Life in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw
Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered in other articles include the autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer, entitled 'From the Ghetto to Modern Culture'; Jan Czynski and the question of equal rights for all religious faiths; education of Jewish women in the nineteenth century; ritual slaughter as a political issue; and the Jewish press in Kraków in the inter-war years.
Antony Polonsky is the first holder of the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, a joint appointment held in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
Statement from the Editors
Articles
A Brief History of the Jews in Royal Prussia before 1772 ZENON NOWAK
From the Ghetto to Modern Culture: The Autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and
Jakob Fromer RICHIE ROBERTSON
Jan Czynski and the Question of Equality of Rights for all Religious Faiths
in Poland ADAM GALKOWSKI
Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forty and Four' or the Dangers of Playing with Kabbalahs
JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ CLARK
Gender Differentiation and Education of the Jewish Women in Nineteenth- Century
Eastern Europe SHAUL STAMPFER
Vox Populi, Vox Dei: The Centrality of Peretz in Jewish Folkloristics
MARK W. KIEL
The Linas-Hatsedek Charitable Fraternity in Bialystok, 1885-1939 TOMASZ WISNIEWSKI
The Jewish Press in Kraków, 1918-1939 CZESLAW BRZOZA
Ritual Slaughter as a Political Issue SZYMON RUDNICKI
Britain and the Jewish Exodus from Poland Following the Second World War ARIEL
JOSEPH KOCHAVI
Henryk Grynberg Calls Poland to Account JOSEF WROBEL
Life in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw
Three Ghetto Sketches JAN MAREK GRONSKI
My Recollections of the Deportation of Janusz Korczak MAREK RUDNICKI
The Death of Adam Czerniakow and Janusz Korczak's Last Journey JERZY LEWINSKI
Sister Wanda ANNA CLARKE
Notes
The Activities of the Democratic Societies and Democratic Party in Defending
Jewish Rights in Poland on the Eve of Hitler's Invasion AHARON WEISS
Documents Dealing with the History of Jews in Galicia in Lwów Archives
DORA KATZENELSON
Review Articles
The Literary Afterlife of Polish Jewry ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Jewish Themes in 'The Beautiful Mrs Seidenmann' by Andrzej Szczypiorski LAURA
QUERCIOLI
About the 'Jews-in-Poland' Exhibition, Kraków, 1989 ALEKSANDER ZYGA
Contributors