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  | | The Neighbors Respond(1st Edition) The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland by Antony Polonsky, Joanna B. Michlic Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 2003 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-11306-7, ISBN: 0-691-11306-8 " Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in the ensuing debate, including ..." |
 | | The Jews in Poland and Russia(Abridged) Volume III: 1914 to 2008 by Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University Paperback, 1,040 Pages, Published 2019 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-78962-047-4, ISBN: 1-78962-047-3 "Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey of the history - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1750, when the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was the dominant political unit, to the present. Until the Second World War, this area was the heartland of the Jewish world: almost all the major movements which have characterized that world in recent times had their origins here, an ..." |
 | | Polin, Volume 13(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry: Focusing on the Holocaust and Its Aftermath v. 13 (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry) by Antony Polonsky, Magda Teter, Jonathan Webber, Marta Aleksandra Balinska, Joanna Branska, Jan Ryszard Bychowski, Joanna Clark, Shevach Eden Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Littman Library Of Jewish ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-47-1, ISBN: 1-874774-47-1 "Many Polish historians, in contrast, have denied the connection between the pre-war and wartime situations; they stress that the harshness of the Nazi occupation led to death for many Poles, and that hiding a Jew was a capital offence.The ..." |
 | | Polin(Updated) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 by Antony Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Ezra Mendelsohn, Magda Teter Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2004 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-22-5, ISBN: 1-904113-22-2 "'Contains too many riches for a brief review to do them justice ...It is instructive to see how the subject of antisemitism is reflected in the pages of this volume, especially because of the number of contributions by Polish scholars, some of them young, to a field that only a few years ago was virtually taboo in Poland.' Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of ..." |
 | | From Shtetl To Socialism Studies From Polin (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry) by Antony Polonsky Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 1993 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-14-3, ISBN: 1-874774-14-5 "Until 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and most important in the world. For nine centuries it was one of the central forces in the shaping of Jewish culture and its impact on the shaping of modern Jewry-religious and secular-was profound. An understanding of the history of the Jews of Poland is thus essential to a proper understanding of Jewish history. This bo ..." |
 | | The Jews in Poland and Russia, Vol. 2(1st Edition) 1881-1914 by Antony Polonsky Hardcover, 518 Pages, Published 2010 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-83-6, ISBN: 1-904113-83-4 "In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish world: nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the Unite ..." |
 | | Little Dictators(1st Edition) History of Eastern Europe Since 1918 by Antony Polonsky Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1975 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7100-8095-0, ISBN: 0-7100-8095-6 |
 | | The Jews in Poland and Russia Volume I: 1350 to 1881 by Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University Paperback, 566 Pages, Published 2019 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-78962-045-0, ISBN: 1-78962-045-7 "In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey-socio-political, economic, and religious-of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish world: nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United St ..." |
 | | The Jews in Poland and Russia Volume II: 1881 to 1914 by Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University Paperback, 518 Pages, Published 2019 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-78962-046-7, ISBN: 1-78962-046-5 "In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey-socio-political, economic, and religious-of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish world: nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United St ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 5: New Research, New Views (v. 5) by Antony Polonsky Paperback, 510 Pages, Published 2008 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-79-9, ISBN: 1-904113-79-6 "This volume focuses on Polish Jews in Germany; Zionism in Poland; and art and architecture. More specifically, this latter section considers the physical impact of the Jewish presence in Polish towns-in general, and in Gora Kalwaria, home to the Gerer hasidic dynasty; there is also a map of synagogue buildings still standing in 1988 and an inventory showing their current use, and an illustrated article on recent Jewish monuments in Wars ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 9: Poles, Jews, Socialists: The Failure of an Ideal (v. 9) by Antony Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Professor Israel Bartal, Magdalena Opalski, Professor Gershon David Hundert Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-81-2, ISBN: 1-904113-81-8 "'The less antisemitism exists among Christians, the easier it will be to unite the social forces . . . and the sooner workers' solidarity will emerge: solidarity of all who are exploited and wronged . . . Jew, Pole, Lithuanian.' Józef Pilsudski, 1903 The Socialist ideals of brotherhood, equality, and justice have exercised a strong attraction for many Jews. On the Polish lands, Jews were drawn to Socialism when the liberal promise of ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 7: Jewish Life in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw (v. 7) by Antony Polonsky Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2008 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-80-5, ISBN: 1-904113-80-X "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 Jewis ..." |
 | | Jewish Ludmir(Reprint) The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky: A Regional History (Jews of Poland) by Volodymyr Muzychenko, Marta Daria Olynyk, Antony Polonsky Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2016 by Academic Studies Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61811-518-8, ISBN: 1-61811-518-9 "Die Erfahrung des Ersten Weltkriegs f|hrt bei vielen Autoren zu einer literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Moral. Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch und Robert Musil setzen hierf|r gezielt satirische Verfahrens- bzw. Schreibweisen ein. In poetologischen Essays entwickeln sie unterschiedliche Satirebegriffe, die mit der heutigen Lehrmeinung zum Satirischen kaum vereinbar sind. Auch ihre jeweiligen Hauptwerke sind von diesen spezifisc ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 18: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe (v. 18) by Chaeran Freeze, Paula E. Hyman, Antony Polonsky, Paula Human Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2005 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-93-8, ISBN: 1-874774-93-5 "Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, 'as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative', has only recently begun. Th ..." |
 | | Polin, Volume Seventeen - The Shtetl(Updated) Myth and Reality (Studies in Polish Jewry) by Antony Polonsky Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 2004 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-76-1, ISBN: 1-874774-76-5 "The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Jews live in big cities, the majority of Jews in Poland historically lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls; even as late as 1931, only 43% lived in towns with a population of more than 20,000. The shtetl was thus the main context and arena for Jewish life in Poland, but much of what we know of shtetl lif ..." |
 | | Polin Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 15: Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900 by Antony Polonsky Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2002 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-72-3, ISBN: 1-874774-72-2 "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 moveme ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 12: Galicia: Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, 1772-1918 by Antony Polonsky, Israel Bartal, Yiśraʼel Barṭal Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1999 by Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization ISBN-13: 978-1-874774-40-2, ISBN: 1-874774-40-4 "From 1772 to 1918 the large stretch of eastern Europe that forms the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains was under Austrian rule and known as Galicia. Jews were concentrated more densely here than anywhere in Europe-in large and small towns, in villages, and in estates. Two factors were to contribute to this region developing a distinctive character in the context of east European Jewish history: the impact of Austrian rule and exposu ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, Volume 7 by Antony Polonsky Hardcover, 339 Pages, Published 1993 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-18932-9, ISBN: 0-631-18932-7 "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 Jewis ..." |
 | | Polin Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32: Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands by François Guesnet, Benjamin Matis, Antony Polonsky Paperback, 500 Pages, Published 2020 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-906764-74-6, ISBN: 1-906764-74-3 "With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice: the spread of hasidism in the eighteenth century meant that popular melodies replaced traditional cantorial music, while the greater accult ..." |
 | | Polin(1st Edition) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 30: Jewish Education in Eastern Europe by Eliyana Adler, Antony Polonsky Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2018 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-906764-51-7, ISBN: 1-906764-51-4 "An emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience. The pervasive presence of schools and teachers, books and libraries, and youth movements, even in an environment as tumultuous as that of nineteenth- and twentieth-century eastern Europe, is clear from the historical records. Historians of the early modern and modern era frequently point to the centrality of educational institutions and pursuits within Je ..." |
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