The focus is on how the Jews were affected by Polish independence
in 1918. Other topics covered include Jan Blonski's article 'The
Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto'; Polish historiography on the
privileges granted to the Jews; the decline of the kahal in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the social perception of Jews
in the eighteenth century; representations of Jews in
nineteenth-century literature; nineteenth-century synagogues; the
Jewish Polish-language press in the interwar period; and
antisemitic slogans in Endecja political campaigns. CONTRIBUTOR:
Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, Research Fellow, St Antony's College,
Oxford. Eugene C. Black, Ottilie Springer Professor of History,
Brandeis University. Andrzej Bryk, Lecturer, Institute for
Constitutional History, Jagiellonian. University, Krakow. Jan
Blonski, Professor of the History of Polish Literature,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Sh. Cygielman, Senior History in
Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-heva.
David Engel, Tel Aviv University. Mieczyslaw Inglot, Professor of
Polish Literature, University of Wroclaw. Paul Latawski, Assistant
Professor of International Relations, New England College, Arundel.
Eli Lederhendler, Lecturer in Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.
George J. Lerski, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History,
University of Chicago. Jozef Lewandowski, Professor of History,
Uppsala University. Maria and Kazimierz Pietchotka, architects and
architectural historians. Edward Rogerson. Szymon Rudnicki, Docent
and Deputy Director, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw.
Michael G. Steinlauf, Brandeis University. Daniel Stone, Professor
of History, University of Winnipeg. Bernadeta Tendyra, London
School of Economics. Anna Zuk, Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy
and Sociology, Marie Curie-Sklodkowska University, Lublin.
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