Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 17 The Shtetl: Myth and Reality

, by Polonsky, Antony

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Supplemental Materials

Note on Place Names

Note on Transliteration

xvi

List of Abbreviations

xvii

PART I THE SHTETL: MYTH AND REALITY

Introduction. The Shtetl: Myth and Reality

(22)

ANTONY POLONSKY

The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish Jewish Integration in the Eighteenth Century

(16)

ADAM TELLER

Inter-Religious Contacts in the Shtetl: Proposals for Future Research

(10)

MICHAL GALAS

The Hasidic Conquest of Small-Town Central Poland, 1754-1818

(32)

GLENN DYNNER

The Drama of Berdichev: Levi Yitshak and his Town

(14)

YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN

Polish Shtetls under Russian Rule, 1772-1914

(12)

JOHN KLIER

How Jewish Was the Shtetl?

109

(10)

BEN-CION PINCHUK

The Changing Shtetl in the Kingdom of Poland during the First World War

119

(14)

KONRAD ZIELINSKI

The Shtetl: Cultural Evolution in Small Jewish Towns

133

(10)

ALINA CALA

Small Towns in Inter-War Poland

143

(10)

REGINA RENZ

Jewish Patrons and Polish Clients: Patronage in a Small Galician Town

153

(18)

ROSA LEIHMANN

Maintaining Borders, Crossing Borders: Social Relationships in the Shtetl

171

(26)

ANNAMARIA ORLA-BUKOWSKA

The Soviet Shtetl in the 1920's

197

(16)

GENNADY ESTRAIKH

Shtetl and Shtot in Yiddish Haskalah Drama

213

(20)

JOEL BERKOWITZ

Kazimierz on the Vistula: Polish Literary Portrayals of the Shtetl

233

(10)

EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC

Imagining the Image: Interpretations of the Shtetl in Yiddish Literary Criticism

243

(16)

MIKHAIL KRUTIKOV

Shtetl Codes: Fantasy in the Fiction of Asch, Schulz, and I.B. Singer

259

(8)

KATARZYNA WIECLAWSKA

Returning to the Shtetl: Differing Perceptions

267

(12)

SHIMON REDLICH

PART II NEW VIEWS

A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda's Polish Question

279

(20)

BRIAN HOROWITZ

Like a Voice Crying in the Wilderness: The Correspondence of Wolf Lewkowicz

299

(26)

MIROSLAW WÓJCIK

Jewish Prisoner Labour in Warsaw After the Ghetto Uprising, 1943-1944

325

(28)

GABRIEL N. FINDER

The Gesiówka Story A Little-Known Page of Jewish Resistance

353

(12)

EDWARD KOSSOY

PART III DOCUMENTS

Gomulka Writes to Stalin in 1948

365

(20)

LECH W. GLUCHOWSKI

Introduction

365

(11)

Document 1: Wladyslaw Gomulka's Letter to Stalin

376

(5)

Document 2: Cryptogram from Stalin and Molotov to Boleslaw Bierut

381

PART IV THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF EVENTS IN PRZYTYK: A DEBATE

If Not a Pogrom, Then What?

385

(7)

JOLANTA ZYNDUL

Pogrom? The Polish Jewish Incidents in Przytyk, 9 March 1936

392

(5)

PIOTR GONTARCZYK

It Was No Ordinary Fight

397

(3)

JOLANTA ZYNDUL

Life and History

400

(1)

RYSZARD FENIGSEN

Letter from Ryszard Fenigsen

401

(3)

Przytyk and the Market Stall

404

(9)

KSAWERY PRUSZYNSKI

PART V REVIEWS

Chone Shmeruk, Hakeriyah lenavi: mehkerei historiyah vesifrut, edited by Israel Bartal; Chone Shmeruk, Ayarot ukerakhim: perakim beyetsirato shel shalom aleikhem, edited by Chava Turniansky

413

(6)

DAVID ASSAF

Anna Michalowska, Miadzy demokracja a oligarchia: Wladze gmin zydowskich Iv Poznaniu i Swarzedzu

419

(3)

MAGDALENA TETER

Magdalena Sitarz, Yiddish and Polish Proverbs: Contrastive Analysis Against Cultural Background

422

(5)

HENRYK DUDA

Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin (eds.), New Perspectives on the Haskalah

427

(2)

VERENA DOHRN

Brian Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland

429

(3)

SCOTT URY

Irena Janicka-Swiderska, Jerzy Jarniewicz, and Adam Sumera (eds.), Jewish Themes in English and Polish Culture

432

(2)

MAREK PARYZ

Nancy L. Green (ed.), Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora

434

(4)

KONRAD ZIELINSKI

Gertrud Pickhan, 'Gegen den Strom'. Der Allgemeine Jüdische Arbeiterbund 'Bund' in Polen, 1918-1939

438

(2)

JACK JACOBS

Anna Cichopek, Pogrom Zydom w Krakowie, 11 sierpnia 1945r.

440

(8)

NATALIA ALEKSIUN

Michal Horoszewicz, Przez dwa millenia do rzymskiej synagogi': Szkice o ewolucji postawy Kosciola katolickiego wobec Zydów i judaizmu

448

(5)

GRZEGORZ IGNATOWSKI

OBITUARIES

Rafael Scharf (1914-2003)

453

(7)

ANTONY POLONSKY

Eugenia Shrut (1925-2003)

460

(2)

RYSZARD FENIGSEN

George Szabad(1917-2002)

462

(3)

ANTONY POLONSKY

Notes on the Contributors

465

(6)

Glossary

471

(4)

Index

475

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