Table of Contents

A Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration Part 1 Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900 Introduction ANTONY POLONSKY Printing the Talmud in Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries KRZYSZTOF PILARCZYK Isaac of Troki's Studies of Rabbinic Literature STEFAN SCHREINER Polish Attitudes towards Jewish Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century JUDITH KALIK Sixteenth-Century Accounts of Purim Festivities HANNA WEGRZYNEK Jewish Popular Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT The Struggle over Images in the Propaganda of the Frankist Movement HARRIS LENOWITZ The Non-Christian Frankists JAN DOKTA"R Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's Attitude towards the Frankists SID Z. LEIMAN The Influence of Frankism on Polish Culture. MICHAL GALAS Tsadik and Ba'al Shem in East European Hasidism KARL E. GRA-TZINGER Holy Men in their Infancy: The Childhood of Tsadikim in Hasidic Legends SUSANNE GALLEY One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire DAVID ASSAF How Far was Krochmal Influenced by the Gaon Sherira ben Hanina in his Description of the Development of Oral Torah? MARGARETE SHLA TER The Messiah Son of Joseph according to Rabbi Zaddok Hacohen ROLAND GOETSCHEL Primordial Chaos and Creation in Gur Hasidism: The Sabbath that Preceded Creation YORAM JACOBSON Part 2 New Views 'Ahavat yehonatan', A Poem by Judah Leo Landau VERONICA BELLING Jakub Becal, King Jan III Sobieski's Jewish Factor ADAM KAZMIERCZYK The Shtadlan of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Noble Advocate or Unbridled Opportunist? SCOTT URY Educational Options for Jewish Girls in Nineteenth-Century Europe ELIYANA R. ADLER The Society for the Advancement of Trade, Industry, and Crafts SZYMON RUDNICKI Strangers in their Own Land: Polish Jews from Lublin to Kielce DANIEL BLATMAN Jewish Writers in Polish Literature EUGENIA PROKOP-JANIEC Auschwitz: Site of Memories SLAWOMIR KAPRALSKI My Jebwabne MARTA KURKOWSKA-BUDZAN Part 3 Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Report of the Vatican Documents on the Second World War The Vatican Documents and the Holocaust: A Personal Report ROBERT S. WISTRICH Yaffa Eliach's Eishyshok: Two Views i 'The new Jew Hitler has fashioned into being' SARUNAS LEIKIS ii Ejszyszki Revisited, 1939-1945 JOHN RADZILOWSKI Holocaust Survivors in Jadwiga Maurer's Short Stories JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ CLARK Polish Translations of Yiddish Literature published in Wroclaw JERZY TOMASZEWSKI BOOK REVIEWS Part 4 Appreciations and Obituaries Chone Shmeruk: The Man and his Work ISRAEL BARTAL The Scholarly Activities of Chone Shmeruk in Poland JA"ZEF A. GIEROWSKI Jan Karski (1914-2000) STANISLAUS A. BLEJWAS Moshe Mishkinsky (1917-1998) JOSHUA D. ZIMMERMAN Notes on Contributors and Translators Glossary Index

About the Author

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.

Reviews

'This scholarly, well-researched, and interesting collection of essays from a host of international scholars offers ... insightful analysis on a wide variety of topics from multiple viewpoints.' David B. Levy, AJL Newsletter 'An important collection of articles both for student interested in the history of the Jews in Poland and for scholars who are interested in following the central developments in this area.' Rachel Manekin, Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung