Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 9 Jews, Poles, Socialists The Failure of an Ideal

by Polonsky, Antony; Bartal, Israel; Hundert, Gershon

• ISBN13: 9781874774211
• ISBN10: 1874774218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Summary

The Socialist ideals of brotherhood, equality, and justice have exercised a strong attraction for many Jews. On the Polish lands, Jews were drawn to Socialism when the liberal promise of integration into the emergent national entities of east and central Europe as Poles or Lithuanians or Russians of the Hebrew faith seemed to be falling. For those Jews seeking emancipation from discrimination and the constraints of a religious community, Socialism offered a tantalizing new route to integration in a wider society. Some Jews saw in Socialism a secularized version of the age-old Jewish messianic longing, while others were driven to the Socialist movement by poverty and the hope that it would supply their material needs.
But in Poland as elsewhere in Europe, Socialism failed to transcend national divisions. The articles in this volume of Polin investigate the failure of this ideal and its consequences for Jews on the Polish lands, examining Socialist attitudes to the 'Jewish question', the use of antisemitism, how the growth of Socialism affected relationships between Poles and Jews, and the character of Jewish Socialist groups in Poland.
The result is a significant contribution to the history of Jews in Poland. It also sheds light on the history of Socialism in east-central Europe and the complexity of national problems there.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place Names
Abbreviations
Introduction
Jewish Socialists in the Kingdom of Poland	p. 3
The Jewish Problem in Polish Socialist Thought	p. 14
The Relation of the Polish Socialist Party: Proletariat to the Bund and the Jewish Question, 1900-1906	p. 32
The Jews, the Left, and the State Duma Elections in Warsaw in 1912: Selected Sources	p. 45
Jews and the Russian Revolution: A Note	p. 55
The Bund in Poland, 1935-1939	p. 58
Lodz Remained Red: Elections to the City Council of 27 September 1936	p. 83
The Jews of Vilna under Soviet Rule, 19 September-28 October 1939	p. 107
The Polish Underground and the Extermination of the Jews	p. 138
The Jewish Underground and the Polish Underground	p. 148
The Pogrom in Kielce on 4 July 1946	p. 158
Antisemitism in Poland in 1956	p. 170
Dov of Bolechow: A Diarist of the Council of Four Lands in the Eighteenth Century	p. 187
A Peaceable Community at Work: The Chevrah of Nasielsk	p. 192
Zionist Pioneering Youth Movements in Poland and their Attitude to Erets Israel during the Holocaust	p. 195
Resistance through Education: Polish Zionist Youth Movements in Warsaw, 1939-1941	p. 212
The Second Competition of Scholarly Works on Polish Jewish Themes	p. 232
History, Drama, and Healing: On the Television Play A i B, by Harvey Sarner	p. 247
Inside, Outside: Interpreting Jewish Difference	p. 255
Alfred Ebenbauer and Klaus Zatloukal (eds.), Die Juden in ihrer mittelalterlichen Umwelt	p. 271
Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer, Hasidism as Mysticism	p. 274
Jadwiga Maurer, 'Z matki obcej...'	p. 276
Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski and Antony Polonsky (eds.), The Jews in Warsaw	p. 280
Maria Klanska, Problemfeld Galizien in deutschsprachiger Prosa 1846-1914	p. 282
Israel Oppenheim, Tenuat Hehaluts be Polin, 1929-1939	p. 284
The Letters of Martin Buber, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr	p. 286
Alexander Beider, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire	p. 289
Alice L. Eckardt (ed.), Burning Memory	p. 295
Ruta Sakowska, Ludzie z dzielnicy zamknietej	p. 297
Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Neutralizing Memory	p. 299
Stanislaw Meducki and Zenon Wrona (eds.), Antyzydowskie wydarzenia kieleckie, 4 lipca 1946	p. 302
Bibliography of Polish-Jewish Studies, 1993	p. 305
Notes on Contributors	p. 319
Notes on Translators	p. 322
Glossary	p. 323
Index	p. 329
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