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>Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol. 3
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Year:
2004
Catalog number :
45-978188
ISBN:
978-1-904113-18-8
Pages:
474
Language:
Edition:
First
Weight:
700 gr.
Cover:
Paperback

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol. 3

The Jews of Warsaw

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Synopsis

In this volume, articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries cover the history of jewish settelment; Jewish populations in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the first world war; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.