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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Michael C. Steinlauf (Ed.)
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Description for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Paperback. A wide-ranging exploration of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Polish Jewish popular culture that lets its richness and vitality shine through. Editor(s): Steinlauf, Michael C.; Polonsky, Antony. Num Pages: 622 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJD; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 238 x 37. Weight in Grams: 924.
Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature; even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of ‘great works’. This volume of Polin focuses on the less explored but historically vital theme of Jewish popular culture and shows how, confronted by the challenges and opportunities of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it blossomed into a complex expression of Jewish life. In addition to a range of articles on the period ... Read more
Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature; even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of ‘great works’. This volume of Polin focuses on the less explored but historically vital theme of Jewish popular culture and shows how, confronted by the challenges and opportunities of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it blossomed into a complex expression of Jewish life. In addition to a range of articles on the period ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
622
Condition
New
Number of Pages
622
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781874774747
SKU
V9781874774747
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99-50
About Michael C. Steinlauf (Ed.)
Michael C. Steinlauf is Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012, The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate ... Read more
Reviews for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
'This massive volume is a pioneering step in the study of popular Jewish culture in Poland ... a fascinating collection.' Shulamith Z. Berger, AJL Newsletter 'Without a doubt, an important contribution to the study of the folk and popular culture of Polish Jewry ... Such an important collection of articles ... must be read from cover to ... Read more