Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939

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. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor in the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Jewry, and the Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerzy Tomaszewski is Professor of History in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the Mordecai Anieliewicz Center for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews.

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.

Preface Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Place-names Abbreviations Introduction ANTONY POLONSKY Part I Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 Jewish Historiography on Polish Jewry in the Interwar Period EZRA MENDELSOHN Britain, a British Jew, and Jewish Relations with the new Poland: The Making of the Polish Minorities Treaty of 1919 MARK LEVENE The Social Consciousness of Young Jews in Interwar Poland ALINA CALA Polish-Jewish Relations as Reflected in Memoirs of the Interwar Period SZYJA BRONSZTEJN Shtetl Communities: Another Image ANNAMARIA ORLA-BUKOWSKA The Civil Rights of Jews in Poland, 1918-1939 JERZY TOMASZEWSKI The Jewish Question in Polish Religious Periodicals in the Second Republic: The Case of the Przeglad katolicki FRANCISZEK ADAMSKI The Image of the Jew in the Catholic Press during the Second Republic ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA The Jewish Press in the Political Life of the Second Republic ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI Polish Political Parties and Antisemitism JERZY HOLZER The Polish Kehillah Elections of 1936: A Revolution Re-examined ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO Jewish Artisans ZBIGNIEW LANDAU Some Aspects of the Life of the Jewish Proletariat in Poland during the Interwar Period B. GARNCARSKA-KADARY The Expulsion of Polish Jews from the Third Reich in 1938 KAROL JONCA The Jewish Boycott Campaign against Nazi Germany and its Culmination in the Halbersztadt Trial ALFRED WISLICKI What Shall We Tell Miriam? A Tale for the Present RAFAEL F. SCHARF Poyln: Land of Sages and Tsadikim YEHIEL YESHAIA TRUNK Part II Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Why Did Assimilation Fail in the Kingdom of Poland between 1864 and 1897? STANISLAUS A. BLEJWAS In the Shadow of the Facts DARIUSZ STOLA Readings and Misreadings: A Reply to Dariusz Stola DAVID ENGEL BOOK REVIEWS Editor's Notes Notes on Contributors Glossary Index