In or Out?: Identities and Images of Poland among Polish Jews in the Postwar Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword IX
4. Preface X
5. Introduction XI
6. List of Contributors LVII
7. Part One. Museological Questions
8. The Voice of the Curators
9. Something Old, Something New: Creating the Narrative for the Early Modern Galleries 1
10. The Nineteenth-Century Gallery 13
11. The Interwar Gallery 20
12. Curatorial and Educational Challenges in Creating the Holocaust Gallery 29
13. Assumptions behind the Postwar Gallery of the Core Exhibition at POLIN 40
14. Comments on the Museum
15. Polish–Jewish Historiography 1970–2015: Construction, Consensus, Controversy 60
16. POLIN, The Medieval and Early Modern Galleries A Comment 78
17. Modernity and Identity Polish Jews Facing Change in the Nineteenth Century 85
18. Hasidism in the Museum: The Social History Perspective 93
19. What’s in, What’s out: A Critique of the Interwar Gallery 105
20. The Truth and Nothing But: The Holocaust Gallery of the Warsaw POLIN Museum in Context 111
21. Perspectives: A Lithuanian Visit to the POLIN Museum Holocaust Gallery 119
22. Polin: A Bildungsroman 130
23. A Historian’s Response Comments on the Gallery “After the War” 134
24. Museums and Education
25. Jewish Tourism to Poland: The Opportunities for New Museum Narratives to Recontextualize Jewish Histories 139
26. Jewish Museums in Moscow 150
27. The Challenges of New Work in History and Education about the Holocaust in Poland 170
28. Part Two. Historiographic Questions
29. Premodern Poland–Lithuania
30. Did the Polish Nobility Take Seriously the Teaching of the Catholic Church? Reflections on the Relations between the Nobility, the Church, and the Jews 183
31. Relations between Jews and Non-Jews in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Perceptions and Practices 198
32. Agreements between Towns and Kahals and their Impact on the Legal Status of Polish Jews 219
33. The Role and Significance of the Jews in the Economy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: The State of Research and Research Directions 231
34. Reassessment of the Jewish Poll Tax Assessment Lists from Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland 255
35. Frankism:The History of Jacob Frank or of the Frankists 261
36. The Nineteenth Century
37. Modern Times Polish Style? Orthodoxy, Enlightenment, and Patriotism 280
38. Jew-Hatred and Anti-Jewish Violence in the Former Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Long Nineteenth Century 285
39. Those Who Stayed: Women and Jewish Traditionalism in East Central Europe 295
40. Pauline Wengeroff: Between Tradition and Modernity, East and West 313
41. The Interwar Years
42. One Jewish Street? Reflections on Unity and Disunity in Interwar Polish Jewry 324
43. Not Just Mały Przegląd: The Ideals and Educational Values Expressed in Jewish Polish-Language Journals for Children and Young Adults 338
44. Legitimizing the Revolution: Sarah Schenirer and the Rhetoric of Torah Study for Girls 356
45. Contested Jewish Polishness: Language and Health as Markers for the Position of Jews in Polish Culture and Society in the Interwar Period 366
46. The Holocaust
47. Historiography on the Holocaust in Poland: An Outsider’s View of its Place within Recent General Developments in Holocaust Historiography 386
48. The Dispute over the Status of a Witness to the Holocaust: Some Observations on How Research into the Destruction of the Polish Jews and into Polish–Jewish Relations during the Years of Nazi Occupation Has Changed since 1989 402
49. Beyond National Identities: New Challenges in Writing the History of the Holocaust in Poland and Israel 423
50. The Postwar Period
51. Violence against Jews in Poland, 1944–47: The State of Research and its Presentation 442
52. The Jews and the “Disavowed Soldiers” 452
53. In or Out?: Identities and Images of Poland among Polish Jews in the Postwar Years 472
54. Index 485