Warsaw. the Jewish Metropolis : Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis -- Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527-1792 -- Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw's Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770-1820) -- Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization -- Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe -- Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850-1880 -- Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi -- Chapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850-1914 -- Chapter 8 In Kotik's Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe -- Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905-12 -- Chapter 10 "Di Haynt-mishpokhe": Study for a Group Picture -- Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War -- Chapter 12 The Capital of "Yiddishland"? -- Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists' Journey between Kiev and Paris -- Chapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period -- Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry -- Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw -- Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army's Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943.

Chapter 18 "The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!": Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust -- Chapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach -- Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949 -- Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews -- Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust -- Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents -- Chapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed -- Chapter 25 "Context is Everything." Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky -- Name Index.

Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis offers analyses of the cultural, religious, political and intellectual history of Warsaw Jewry, once the leading Jewish metropolis in Europe and the world.

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