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Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the
Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and
vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from
the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the
Second World War (1899–1939). In this multidisciplinary essay
collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an
integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by
illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than
Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture.
Each essay presents readers with the extraordinary
production and consumption of culture by Polish Jews in literature,
film, cabaret, theater, the visual arts, architecture, and music.
They show how this process was defined by a reciprocal cultural
exchange that flourished between cities at the periphery—from
Lwów and Wilno to Kraków and Łódź—and international centers
like Warsaw, thereby illuminating the place of Polish Jews within
urban European cultures.
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals,
and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive
biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the
field that is now called Holocaust studies. Dawidowicz was a
household name in the postwar years, not only because of her
scholarship but also due to her political views. Dawidowicz, like
many other New York intellectuals, was a youthful communist, became
an FDR democrat midcentury, and later championed neoconservatism.
Nancy Sinkoff argues that Dawidowicz's rightward shift emerged out
of living in prewar Poland, watching the Holocaust unfold from New
York City, and working with displaced persons in postwar Germany.
Based on over forty-five archival collections, From Left to Right
chronicles Dawidowicz's life as a window into the major events and
issues of twentieth-century Jewish life. From Left to Right is
structured in four parts. Part 1 tells the story of Dawidowicz's
childhood, adolescence, and college years when she was an immigrant
daughter living in New York City. Part 2 narrates Dawidowicz's
formative European years in Poland, New York City (when she was
enclosed in the European-like world of the New York YIVO), and
Germany. Part 3 tells how Dawidowicz became an American while
Polish Jewish civilization was still inscribed in her heart and
also explores when and how Dawidowicz became the voice of East
European Jewry for the American Jewish public. Part 4 exposes the
fissure between Dawidowicz's European-inflected diaspora
nationalist modern Jewish identity and the shifting definition of
American liberalism from the late 1960s forward, which also saw the
emergence of neoconservatism. The book includes an interpretation
of her memoir From that Place and Time, as well as an appendix of
thirty-one previously unpublished letters that illustrate the broad
reach of her work and person. Dawidowicz's right-wing politics,
sex, and unabashed commitment to Jewish particularism in an East
European Jewish key have resulted in scholarly neglect. Therefore,
this book is strongly recommended for scholars and general readers
interested in Jewish and women's studies.
Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the
Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and
vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from
the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the
Second World War (1899–1939). In this multidisciplinary essay
collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an
integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by
illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than
Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture.
Each essay presents readers with the extraordinary
production and consumption of culture by Polish Jews in literature,
film, cabaret, theater, the visual arts, architecture, and music.
They show how this process was defined by a reciprocal cultural
exchange that flourished between cities at the periphery—from
Lwów and Wilno to Kraków and Łódź—and international centers
like Warsaw, thereby illuminating the place of Polish Jews within
urban European cultures.
A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a
Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late
eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival,
German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture. Sara Levy née Itzig
(1761-1854), a salonnière, skilled performing musician, and active
participant in enlightened Prussian Jewish society, played a
powerful role in shaping the dynamic cultural world of late
eighteenth- and earlynineteenth-century Berlin. A patron and
collector of music, she studied harpsichord with Wilhelm Friedemann
Bach (1710-84) and commissioned musical compositions from both
Friedemann and his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88).
Archival evidence demonstrates Levy's position as an essential link
in the transmission of the music of their father, Johann Sebastian
Bach (1685-1750), and as a catalyst for the "Bach revival" of the
early nineteenth century, which was led by her great-nephew Felix
Mendelssohn. Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach
Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin represents the first scholarly
exploration of the cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts that
shaped Levy's world. Bringing together leading scholars from the
fields of musicology, Jewish Studies, history, literary studies,
gender studies, and philosophy, this volume presents cutting-edge,
multidisciplinary research on the numerous mutually reinforcing
aspects of Levy's life and work. Contributors: Rebecca Cypess,
Marjanne E. Goozé, Barbara Hahn, Martha B. Helfer, Natalie
Naimark-Goldberg, Elias Sacks, Yael Sela, Nancy Sinkoff, George B.
Stauffer, Christoph Wolff, Steven Zohn Rebecca Cypess is Associate
Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Nancy Sinkoff is
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Director
ofthe Center for European Studies at Rutgers University.
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