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Auteur(s) : Polonsky, Antony Barry (1940-....)
Titre(s) : The Jews in Poland and Russia [Texte imprimé] / Antony Polonsky
Publication : Oxford, GB ; Portland, Or. : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010-2012
Description matérielle : 3 vol. (XIV-534, XVI-492, XII-998 p.) : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Collection : The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Lien à la collection : The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Comprend : Vol. 1, 1350 to 1881 ; Vol. 2, 1881 to 1914 ; Vol. 3, 1914 to 2008
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The history of the Jewish communities of these lands-where most of the Jews of Europe
and America originated-is often the subject of woolly thinking and stereotypes. Antony
Polonsky recreates this lost world in a way that avoids both sentimentalism and the
simplification of the east European Jewish experience into a story of persecution
and martyrdom. This is an important story whose relevance extends beyond the Jewish
world or the bounds of east-central Europe ; The major cultural, ideological, and
social changes that have occurred in Europe in the past century have generated widespread
reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies,
its directions, its emphases, and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish
past in the spirit of this reassessment, It points to a new framework for the study
of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical
scholarship ; In Three-Volume History, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey--socio-political,
economic, and religious--of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to
the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish world:
nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million
more lived in the Soviet Union ; Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the
United States, and many of the Jews of Israel, originate from these lands, their history
there is not well known. Rather, it is the subject of mythologizing and stereotypes
that fail both to bring out the specific features of the Jewish civilization which
emerged there and to illustrate what was lost. Jewish life, though often poor materially,
was marked by a high degree of spiritual and ideological intensity and creativity.
Antony Polonsky recreates this lost world--brutally cut down by the Holocaust and
less brutally but still seriously damaged by the Soviet attempt to destroy Jewish
culture. Wherever possible, the unfolding of history is illustrated by contemporary
Jewish writings to show how Jews felt and reacted to the complex and difficult situations
in which they found themselves ; This second volume covers the period from 1881 to
1914. It considers the deterioration in the position of the Jews during that time
and the new political and cultural movements that developed as a consequence: Zionism,
socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish
urbanization, and the rise of popular Jewish culture. Galicia, Prussian Poland, the
Kingdom of Poland, and the tsarist empire are all treated individually, as are the
main towns of these areas ; Volume I covers the period 1350-1881; Volume 3 covers
1914-2005. --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Juifs -- Pologne -- Histoire
Juifs -- Russie -- Histoire
Relations interethniques -- Pologne -- Histoire
Relations interethniques -- Russie -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781874774648 (vol. 1). - ISBN 1874774641 (vol. 1). - ISBN 9781904113836 (vol.
2). - ISBN 1904113834 (vol. 2). - ISBN 9781904113485 (vol. 3). - ISBN 1904113486 (vol.
3) (hardback)
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Notice n° :
FRBNF43580951
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