Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 12 Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians 1772-1918

by Bartal, Israel; Polonsky, Antony

• ISBN13: 9781874774402
• ISBN10: 1874774404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Summary

From 1772-1918 Jews were concentratede more densely in Galicia than in any other area in Europe. Bartal (modern jewish history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Polonsky (Judaic and social studies, Brandeis University) are joined by a number of other scholars of Judaism to explore the Jewish community in Galicia and its relationship with the Poles, Ukranians, and other ethnic groups. Essays include discuss of the consequences of Galician autonomy; Galician Jewish migration to Vienna; the reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II in the 18th centyry, the assimilation of the Jewish elite; and levels of literacy among Poles and jews.

Table of Contents

Note on Names and Place-Names	xv
Table of Major Place-Names	xvii
Note on Transliteration	xix
PART I FOCUSING ON GALICIA: JEWS, POLES, AND UKRAINIANS, 1772--1918
Introduction: The Jews of Galicia under the Habsburgs	3	(22)
Israel Bartal
Antony Polonsky
Dimensions of a Triangle: Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Austrian Galicia	25	(24)
John-Paul Himka
Austrian First Impressions of Ethnic Relations in Galicia: The Case of Governor Anton von Pergen	49	(12)
Franz A. J. Szabo
The Jewish Question in Galicia: The Reforms of Maria Theresa Joseph II, 1772--1790	61	(12)
Stanislaw Grodziski
Ludwig Gumplowicz's Programme for the Improvement of the Jewish Situation	73	(6)
Hanna Kozinska-Witt
Enlightenment, Assimilation, and Modern Identity: The Jewish Elite in Galicia	79	(7)
Jerzy Holzer
The Consequences of Galician Autonomy after 1867	86	(14)
Jozef Buszko
Politics, Religion, and National Identity: The Galician Jewish Vote in the 1873 Parliamentary Elections	100	(20)
Rachel Manekin
From Austeria to the Manor: Jewish Landowners in Autonomous Galicia	120	(17)
Tomasz Gasowski
A Ukrainian Answer to the Galician Ethnic Triangle: The Case of Ivan Franko	137	(10)
Yaroslav Hrytsak
Galician Jewish Migration to Vienna	147	(17)
Klaus Hodl
Yiddish as an Expression of Jewish Cultural Identity in Galicia and Vienna	164	(15)
Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz
PART II NEW VIEWS
Bernard Singer, the Forgotten `Most Popular Jewish Reporter of the Inter-War Years in Poland'	179	(19)
Janina Katarzyna Rogozik
Johann Anton Krieger, Printer of Jewish Books in Nowy Dwor	198	(14)
Emanuel Ringelblum
The Alphabetical List of Payers of the Communal Tax in Warsaw for 1912	212	(9)
Joanna Hensel-Liwszicowa
`The City of Illiterates'? Levels of Literacy among Poles and Jews in Warsaw, 1882--1914	221	(21)
Stephen D. Corrsin
Poles, Jews, and Russians, 1863--1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland	242	(15)
Theodore R. Weeks
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872--1905: A Polish Socialist for Jewish Nationality	257	(14)
Timothy Snyder
The Endecja and the Jewish Question	271	(13)
Roman Wapinski
The Return of the Troublesome Bird: Jerzy Kosinski and Polish-Jewish Relations	284	(13)
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
PART III REVIEWS
Review Essays
The Historical Besht: Reconstruction or Deconstruction?	297	(10)
Immanuel Etkes
Four Days in Atlantis: Jozef Lewandowski's Complex Vision of the Polish Jewish Past	307	(9)
Janusz Korek
On the Bowdlerization of a Holocaust Testimony: The Wartime Journal of Calek Perechodnik	316	(14)
David Engel
Judaica in Slovakia	330	(7)
Adam Bartosz
Book Reviews
Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization in the Mind of the Enlightenment	337	(2)
Daniel Stone
Andrzej Zbikowski, Zydzi	339	(1)
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Elijah Judah Schochet, The Hasidic Movement and the Gaon of Vilna	340	(3)
Alan Brill
Jonathan Frankel, The Damascus Affair: `Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840	343	(2)
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Erich Haberer, Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia	345	(2)
Chaeran Y. Freeze
Ute Caumanns, Die polnischen Jesuiten, der `Przeglad Powszechny' und der politische Katholizismus in der Zweiten Republik. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der katholischen Presse Polens zwischen den Weltkriegen, 1918--1939	347	(2)
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Wilma Abeles Iggers (ed.), The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader	349	(2)
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Nehemiah Polen, The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto	351	(2)
Pinchas Giller
Ida Fink, A Scrap of Time and Other Stories	353	(2)
Thomas Klein
Jerzy Michalewicz, Zydowskie okreggi metrykalne i zydowskie gminy wyznaniowe w Galicji	355	(3)
Piotr Wrobel
David G. Roskies, A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling	358	(4)
Joanna Rostropowicz Clark
Gershon C. Bacon, The Politics of Tradition: Agudas Yisrael in Poland, 1916--1936	362	(1)
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Harold B. Segel (ed.), Stranger in our Midst: Images of the Jews in Polish Literature	363	(6)
Gwido Zlatkes
Obituary
Chone Shmeruk	369	(6)
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Notes on the Contributors	375	(5)
Glossary	380	(7)
Index	387