Rethinking Poles and Jews

Rethinking Poles and Jews
Author: Robert D. Cherry
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742546660

Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland.

Shelter from the Holocaust

Shelter from the Holocaust
Author: Mark Edele
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 081434268X

This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199356815

Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

The Jews in Polish Culture

The Jews in Polish Culture
Author: Aleksander Hertz
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810107588

"A richly perceptive sociological consideration of the Jewish community as a caste in 19th- and early-20th-century Poland... A book that should be part of any study of modern Polish culture or Diaspora Jewry." --Kirkus Reviews

Conscious History

Conscious History
Author: Natalia Aleksiun
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789628059

Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history devoted themselves to creating a sense of Polish Jewish belonging while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. The political climate made it hard for these men and women to pursue an academic career; instead they had to continue their efforts to create and disseminate Polish Jewish history by teaching outside the university and publishing in scholarly and popular journals. By introducing the Jewish public to a pantheon of historical heroes to celebrate and anniversaries to commemorate, they sought to forge a community aware of its past, its cultural heritage, and its achievements---though no less important were their efforts to counter the increased hostility towards Jews in the public discourse of the day. In highlighting the role of public intellectuals and the social role of scholars and historical scholarship, this study adds a new dimension to the understanding of the Polish Jewish world in the interwar period.

Hunt for the Jews

Hunt for the Jews
Author: Jan Grabowski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 025301087X

A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of those who escaped the death camps would survive to see liberation. As Jan Grabowski’s penetrating microhistory reveals, the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. Hunt for the Jews tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa, Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland. Drawing on materials from Polish, Jewish, and German sources created during and after the war, Grabowski documents the involvement of the local Polish population in the process of detecting and killing the Jews who sought their aid. Through detailed reconstruction of events, “Grabowski offers incredible insight into how Poles in rural Poland reacted to and, not infrequently, were complicit with, the German practice of genocide. Grabowski also, implicitly, challenges us to confront our own myths and to rethink how we narrate British (and American) history of responding to the Holocaust” (European History Quarterly).

Out of the Shtetl

Out of the Shtetl
Author: Nancy Sinkoff
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2003
Genre: Hasidism
ISBN: 193067516X

Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253014778

Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

At the Mercy of Strangers

At the Mercy of Strangers
Author: נחום ‏בוגנר
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

[This book] "by Dr. Nahum Bogner is the result of his unique and pathfinding research relating to the rescue of children who lived and survived under an assumed identity in Poland among various strands of the Christian population--in towns, in villages and in vonvents--as well as the efforts made by various bodies after the war to locate the children. At the heart of this carefully documented drama is the author's discussion of the fate of the child survivors as he explores their lives in alien Christian surroundings and their tortuous journey back to the Jewish fold."--From page [4] of cover.

The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
Author: Yisrael Gutman
Publisher: Tauber Institute Series for th
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874515558

Original essays by distinguished scholars explore Jewish politics, religion, literature, and society in Poland from 1918 to 1939.