Table of Contents

Note on Place Names
Note on Transliteration

PART I: Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1918

The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews: Introduction
GLENN DYNNER & MARCIN WODZIŃSKI

Jews in the in the Discourses of the Polish Enlightenment
RICHARD BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI

The Jews in the Duchy of Warsaw: The Question of Equal Rights in Administrative Theory and Practice
ALEKSANDRA ONISZCZUK

‘English Missionaries’ Look at Polish Jews: The Value and Limitations of Missionary Reports as Source Material
AGNIESZKA JAGODZIŃSKA

‘Languishing from a Distance’: Louis Meyer and the Demise of the German Jewish Ideal
FRANÇOIS GUESNET

'Each for his Own': Economic Nationalism in Łódź, 1864–1914
YEDIDA KANFER

The Attitude of the Jews towards Poland’s Independence
SZYMON RUDNICKI

Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Kingdom of Poland
ARTUR MARKOWSKI

Theology in Translation: Progressive Judaism in the Kingdom of Poland
BENJAMIN MATIS

'Who Has Not Wanted Ro Be an Editor: The Yiddish Press in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905–1914
JOANNA NALEWAJKO-KULIKOV

Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1861–1914: Changes and Continuities
THEODORE WEEKS

Feliks Perl on the Jewish Question
JOSHUA D. ZIMMERMAN

Yiddish Language Rights in Congress Poland during the First World War: The Social Implications of Linguistic Recognition
MARCOS SILBER

PART II: New Views

The Anti-Favus Campaign in Poland: Jewish Social Medicine
RAKEFET ZALASHIK

Władysław Raczkiewicz and Jewish Issues
JACEK PIOTROWSKI

After Złote żniwa: An Attempt to Assess the Social Impact of the Book
ANTONI SUŁEK

Righteousness and Evil: Jedwabne in the Polish Theatre
KATHLEEN CIOFFI

From Brzeżany to Afula: A Child’s Journey from Pre-War Poland to Israel in the 1950s: A Conversation with Shimon Redlich
GABRIEL N. FINDER

Obituaries
Jacob Goldberg
Hasidism without Romanticism: Mendel Piekarz’s Path in the Study of Hasidism
Paula Hyman
Vitka Kempner-Kovner
Roman Totenberg
Zenon Guldon

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Glenn Dynner is Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, and was the 2013–14 Senior NEH Scholar at the Center for Jewish History. He is the author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (2006) and Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (2013). He is also editor of Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe (2011). 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. Marcin Wodziński is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław.