Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration , Names, and Place-Names Introduction ANTONY POLONSKY Part I On Religion: Aspects and Experiences Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-war Poland SHAUL STAMPFER Tobacco and the Hasidim LOUIS JACOBS 'A Thread of Blue': Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyn and his Search for Continuity in Response to Modernity SHAUL MAGID The Tarler rebbe of Lodz and his Medical Practice: Towards a History of Hasidic Life in Pre-First World War Poland IRA ROBINSON Aaron Menaham Mendel Guterman, the rebbe of Radzymin HARRY RABINOWICZ A Pilgrimage from Bobowa to Bobowa DAM BARTOSZ On the Brink of Disaster: Hillel Zeitlin's Struggle for Jewish Survival in Poland SHRAGA BAR SELLA Ala from the Primer ALINA MARGOLIS-EDELMAN The Congregation of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw: Its Changing Social Composition and Ideological Affiliations ALEXANDER GUTERMAN The Progressive Synagogue in Lwow JULIAN J. BUSSGANG The Synagogues of Lodz KRZYSZTOF STEFANSKI Part II New Views Conspiracy Theories and the Reception of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Poland JANUSZ TAZBIR Polish Influences on British Policy regarding Jewish Rescue Efforts in Poland, 1939-1945 BERNARD WASSERSTEIN The Concerns of an Immigrant Rabbi: The Life and Sermons of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz KIMMY CAPLAN Trunk's Poyln: Its Place in Jewish-Polish History ANNA CLARKE Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Inter-War Poland as reflected in Some Ukrainian Publications SHIMON REDLICH Jewish Martyrdom in the Works of Adolf Rudnicki JOZEF WROBEL The Jewish Question in Poland: Views Expressed in the Catholic Press between the Two World Wars ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA Part III Book Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS History, Experience, and Democracy. Istvan Bibo Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944-Fifty Years Later ROBERT BRAUN The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust MICHAEL BURLEIGH Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians JERZY TOMASZEWSKI A New Account of the 'March Events' JOZEF LEWANDOWSKI BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH JEWISH STUDIES, 1995

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.