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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939
Antony Polonsky (Ed.)
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Description for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939
Paperback. The ideologies that dominated the Jewish world in the interwar period all emerged in Poland. This volume provides a clearer understanding of the divisive issues. Editor(s): Polonsky, Walter Stern Hilborn Professor of Judaic and Social Sduties Antony (London School of Economics and Political Science); Mendelsohn, Professor Emeritus Institute of Contemporary Jewry Ezra (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Boston University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Boston University Boston University); Tomaszewski, Jerzy. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 668.
In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of three million was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world-Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, assimilation-were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of antisemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which it aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America that together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which ... Read more
In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of three million was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world-Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, assimilation-were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of antisemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which it aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America that together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
667g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904113225
SKU
V9781904113225
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About Antony Polonsky (Ed.)
Antony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. He is the author of the three-volume History of the Jews in Poland and Russia, published in an abridged paperback version as The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor ... Read more
Reviews for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939
'The volume 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 ... Read more