Towards a Polish-Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward KRZYSZTOF ŚLIWIŃSKI Polish Ambassador to the Jewish Diaspora Note on Transliteration, Names, and List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction GERSHON DAVID HUNDERT xvii xxvii xxviii xxix xxxi PART I JEWS IN EARLY MODERN POLAND Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland 3 JACOB GOLDBERG 'For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord': The Tkhine for 'Laying Wicks' by Sarah bas Tovim 40 CHAVA WEISSLER The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought 66 ELIMELECH WESTREICH The Ashkenazi at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book 85 ELCHANAN REINER The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 99 ZENON GULDON and JACEK WIJACZKA Jewish Art and in the East European Context: The Gwoździec-Chodorów Group of Wooden Synagogues THOMAS C. HUBKA In Praise of the Shivhei habesht MOSHE ROSMAN Jews in Early Modern Poland 1997 Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of digitalisiert durch: IDS Basel Bern
xii Contents Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews 200 DANIEL STONE PART II NEW VIEWS Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations PAUL COATES 'That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison': The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter 247 GERTRUD PICKHAN Mayufes: A Window on Polish-Jewish Relations 273 CHONE SHMERUK On the History of the Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Poland 287 ISRAEL M. TA-SHMA REVIEW ESSAYS On Eisenbach on Emancipation TOMASZ PART III REVIEWS A Reply to Tomasz Gąsowski 326 ARTUR EISENBACH Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer 333 CHONE SHMERUK On Auschwitz 339 NECHAMA TEC BOOK REVIEWS Israel Bartal, Rachel and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), ve 'aseh: Mehkarim behasidut Polin 344 SETH BRODY S. Bronsztejn, Z dziejów ludności żydowskiej na Dolnym po wojnie światowej 347 DAVID ENGEL
xiii Abraham David (ed.), A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, 350 JOSEPH M. Norman Davies and Antony Polonsky the USSR, OREST SUBTELNY Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of MARSHA ROZENBLIT Jews in Eastern Poland in Poland, 353 Barbara Engelking, Na popiołów: Ocaleni z Holocaustu 355 SHMUEL KRAKOWSKI Barbara Engelking, Zagłada i pamięć 358 WERBOWSKI Peter Faessler, Thomas Held, and Dirk (eds.), Eine Stadt im Schnittpunkt europäischer Kulturen 360 PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI Darrel J. Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia? 362 ELLEN M. UMANSKY P. Fijałkowski (ed.), Dzieje Żydów w Polsce: Wybór tekstów źródłowych XI-XVIII wieku 364 JUDITH David E. Fishman, Russia 's First Modern Jews: The Jews 367 Joseph Held (ed.), The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century 369 IRINA LIVEZEANU Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom 370 JERZY TOMASZEWSKI Edward Kossoy and Abraham Ohry, The Feldshers: Medical, Sociological, and Historical Aspects of Practitioners of Medicine with below University Level Education 372 LISA EPSTEIN Mark Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe: The Diplomacy JERZY TOMASZEWSKI 374
xiv Contents Steven M. Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 377 PAULA E. HYMAN Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe 379 PHILIP LONGWORTH Jerzy Michalski (ed.), Lud żydowski w narodzie polskim DANIEL STONE Clare Moore (ed.), The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art 383 MARC MICHAEL EPSTEIN Gedalyah Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism 386 SHAUL Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood 388 MAURICE FRIEDBERG Eugenia Międzywojenna literatura jako zjawisko kulturowe i artystyczne JOLANTA KISLER-GOLDSTEIN Joel Raba, Bein zikaron lehakhehashah: Gezerot tah vetat bereshimot benei hazeman ubere Ч haketivah hahistorit 396 EDWARD FRAM Marek Rostworowski (ed.), Żydzi w Polsce: Obraz i słowo 398 EZRA MENDELSOHN Jean W. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 402 HENRIK BIRNBAUM Jerzy Topolski, Polska w czasach nowożytnych: Od środkowoeuropejskiej potęgi do utraty niepodłegłości, 405 JACOB GOLDBERG Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government 408 ANDRZEJ CHOJNOWSKI E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M.Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust MICHAEL BERENBAUM
xv Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad 'am and the Origins of Zionism MICHAEL BROWN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES, Notes the Contributors 435 Glossary 437 Index