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A Review of: Łukasz T. Sroka, Żydzi w Krakowie. Studium o elicie miasta (1850–1918) [Les Juifs à Cracovie. Studium de l’élite de la ville 1850–1918], (Prace Monograficzne nr 489/Travaux monographies no 489) Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, Kraków 2008, pp. 240
A Review of: Zuleika Rodgers, Margaret Daly-Denton, Anne Fitzpatric McKinley (eds.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne, (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism – 132) Brill, Leiden–Boston 2009, pp. 619, b/w ill. (ISBN 978-90-04-17355-2)
A REVIEW OF: Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova (eds.), Gaps in the Iron Curtain. Economic relations between neutral and socialist countries in Cold War Europe, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2009, ss. 293
A Review of: Izabela Eph‘al-Jaruzelska, Prophets, Royal Legitimacy and War in Ancient Israel, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2009, pp. 192 (ISBN 978-83-235-0469-6)
Über Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936) wird auf zweierlei Art und Weise berichtet, und selten gelingt es, ihre zwei Geschichten in ein Personenleben zusammenfließen zu lassen. Zunächst wird über ihre Jugend in Wien geschrieben, als sie eine hysterische, „indirekte“ Patientin von Sigmund Freud war. Freud sollte anhand der Berichte über ihren Fall und der von ihr selber entwickelten Heilmethode, die Psychoanalyse...
In the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, many Jews belonging to high society and undertaking freelance occupations began to assimilate with their usually Christian environment. This was often a necessary prerequisite (also legally) for their social advancement. Nevertheless, their assimilation was rarely complete. In most cases, it was only partial and concerned clothes, everyday habits...
In 63 BCE the army of the Roman General Pompey the Great invaded ancient Palestine, destroyed part of the Jerusalem temple, and ended the nearly eighty-year-old Hasmonean state. The Romans thereafter ruled ancient Palestine either directly or through a series of client kings. The great Jewish War against the Romans of 66–70 CE was largely an effort to restore independent Jewish rule. The Jewish historian...
This paper describes S.Y. Agnon’s ironic, dual, modern attitude to the Song of Songs, as a traditionalist and as one who identifies himself with the doctor’s statements: “We are enlightened individuals, modern people, we seek freedom for ourselves and for all humanity, and in point of fact we are worse than the most die-hard reactionaries.” Agnon’s attitude to the world of love is the attitude of...
The origin of the concept of the American Dream is attributed to James Truslow Adams, whose The Epic of America (1931) was the publication that launched the popularity of the phrase. Adams referred to a dream of a better, happier, and richer life, which should be attainable for all people, and, in his view, America was the place which offers such an opportunity: „That dream of the land in which life...
Being one of the leading cultural and literary periodicals, Wiadomości Literackie [“Literary News”] played an important role in shaping the literary tastes of members of the Polish intelligentsia, and was a peculiar institution in literary life itself. The primary goal assumed by the journal was to elevate the level of Polish culture and literature and to present the most recent phenomena of European...
On June 23, 2011, in Milan, Italy, The Holocaust Art Looting and Restitution symposium was presented by Christie’s, auction house, and Art Law Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA). This was a first, a conference focused on the Holocaust art restitution, to take place in Italy. The symposium convened leaders of the restitution community as well as government officials, scholars,...
The Jews and Armenians inhabiting the Poland of days gone by had much in common, despite their different beliefs. Previous research has, however, devoted little attention to this problem, and even when it has the discussion has not been entirely objective. In recent times, the problem was discussed by Krystyn Matwijowski and Nadzieżda Bańczyk and Karina Mkrtczian. While in the last twenty years studies...
Dans la période d’entre-deux guerres, la Communauté Juive de Cracovie comptait environ 39 000 membres. Un quart des habitants de la ville de Cracovie était juif. Dans la voïvodie de Cracovie, la moitié des résidents d’origine juive étaient de nationalité polonaise, 26% de Juifs considéraient le polonais comme langue maternelle (troisième place dans le pays en matière de nombre); 18% de Juifs déclaraient,...
The former Jewish quarter (16th to 20th century) of Nowy Wiśnicz (henceforth: Wiśnicz, Yid. ווישניצא Vischnitsa) has so far only been mentioned on a few occasions and with little precision, in the books by Stanisław Fischer (1927/28), Mieczysław Książek (1976, 1979, 1988, 1990), and Adam Bartosz (1992). The last decades saw a handful of publications regarding this subject. The first one to touch upon...
In diesem Artikel fasse ich Befunde zusammen, die ich in einem Projekt erarbeitete, das die Teilnahme der Juden an den Stadtparlamenten der oben genannten Städte analysierte. Diese Zusammenfassung erfolgt in vier Schritten. Erstens: möchte ich erklären, warum das Thema so und nicht anders formuliert wurde. Zweitens: stelle ich die Voraussetzungen der jüdischen Aktivitäten in den kommunalen Stadtparlamenten...
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