Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Languages and Usage xiii
4. A Conversation with Series Editor xv
5. Foreword xxiii
6. Introduction to the Yiddish Historians and Their Work xxix
7. Part One JEWISH AUTONOMY
8. 1 Autonomy in Jewish History 1
9. 2 The Jewish Parliament in Lithuania and Belorussia in Its Legislative Activity, 1623–1721 9
10. 3 A Budget of the Council of Four Lands in 1726 17
11. 4 The Financial Collapse of the Central and Provincial Autonomy of the Jews in Old- Time Poland, 1650–1764 27
12. 5 The Central Representative Bodies of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, 1807–1816 35
13. 6 The Warsaw Kehila under the Leadership of Dr. Ludwik Natanson, 1871–1896 42
14. 7 Jewish “Autonomy”: The Nazi-Imposed Jewish Councils 50
15. Part Two On the Jewish Street
16. 8 Yiddish Theater in the German and Slavic Ghettos during the Sixteenth Century 63
17. 9 The Structure of the Jewish Guilds in Poland, Lithuania, and Belorussia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71
18. 10 Two Communities in One City: The Jews of Lemberg from Medieval to Modern Times 79
19. 11 The Young Historians Circle in Warsaw, 1923–1939 88
20. 12 Varied Were the Ways (of Jewish Resistance) 94
21. 13 The Wooden Synagogues in Poland before the Holocaust 102
22. 14 The Soup Kitchen and the Yiddish Theater in the Warsaw Ghetto 107
23. Part Three In the Non-Jewish World
24. 15 Jewish-Christian Relations in Płock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 115
25. 16 What Types of Taxes Did the Jews of Lublin Pay in the Former Independent Poland? 121
26. 17 Jewish Home Industry in Old-Time Poland 127
27. 18 The “New Settlements” in 1808: How Belorussian Jews Responded to the First Order to Settle in Agricultural Colonies in Russian Ukraine 132
28. 19 Jewish Cantonists—Young Boys Recruited for Military Service in Tsarist Russia, 1828–1956 137
29. 20 Antisemitism and Pogroms in Ukraine, 1917–1918: On the History of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations 146
30. 21 On the Causes of Jewish Defenselessness against the Nazis and the Strength of Jewish Resistance 157
31. Part Four Yiddish Literature
32. 22 The Brantshpigl (Burning Mirror), 1596—The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Woman in the Seventeenth Century 165
33. 23 On the Sources of the Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), 1602 173
34. 24 Three Hundred Years of the Tsene-rene (Bible Stories for Women), 1616 180
35. 25 The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1815): Hasidism and Yiddish Literary Creativity 185
36. 26 On the History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Haskalah Period 195
37. 27 Four Unknown Yiddish Plays from the Mid-Nineteenth Century 205
38. 28 Yiddish Literature under Nazi Occupation 214
39. Part Five Press, Post, Communications
40. 29 Life and Language as Reflected by Yiddish Testimony in the Responsa Literature from the Beginning of the Fifteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century 225
41. 30 The Jewish Postal Service in Tsarist Russia during the Early Nineteenth Century 232
42. 31 The First Yiddish Newspaper in the Russian Empire, Kol mevaser, and Its Time, 1862–72 241
43. 32 The Attitude toward Yiddish of the Russian Authorities in Vilna during the 1860s: On the History of Jewish Bookselling in Vilna 252
44. 33 Ghettos and Concentration Camps Seeking Contacts: A Chapter of Jewish Resistance 257
45. 34 Unknown Letters by Zelig Kalmanovich in the Vilna Ghetto to Isaac Giterman in the Warsaw Ghetto 264
46. 35 Inscriptions on Walls, Sacred Texts, and Other Books during the Holocaust 276
47. Part Six Education
48. 36 Joseph Perl as a Pedagogical Leader and His School in Tarnopol 125 Years after Its Founding 288
49. 37 Yehuda-Leib Gordon as a Fighter for the Haskalah in Jewish Schools in Lithuania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 298
50. 38 The Rise of Yiddish Secular Schools in Poland during World War I 306
51. 39 Jewish Schools in the Vilna Ghetto as Spiritual Resistance 313
52. 40 The Jewish Vocational and Higher School System in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–42 322
53. 41 The School System and Education for Holocaust Survivors in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany 331
54. 42 Four Years of the Chair for Holocaust Studies, Bar- Ilan University, Israel 343
55. Part Seven Book Reviews
56. 43 The History of the Jews in Russia (1914) 351
57. 44 Saul Ginsburg. Historical Works (1937) 358
58. 45 Isaiah Trunk. The History of the Jews in Płock (1939) 363
59. 46 Jacob Shatzky. In the Shadow of the Past (1947) 368
60. 47 Philip Friedman. Auschwitz (1950) 372
61. 48 Mark Dworzecki. White Nights and Black Days: Jewish Camps in Estonia (1970) 377
62. 49 Nachman Blumental. Words and Sayings from the Holocaust Period (1981) 383