Table of Contents

Note on Place NamesNote on Transliteration
Part I  Structural and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland
IntroductionADAM TELLER AND MAGDA TETER
Hugo Grotius and the Blood Libel Trials in Lublin, 1636MEIR BAŁABAN
The Boundaries of Memory: A Central European Chronograph from 1655ELISHEVA CARLEBACH
The Authority of the Council of Four Lands Outside Poland–LithuaniaMOSHE ROSMAN
Telling the Difference: Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews’ Legal Status in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman EmpireADAM TELLER
The Jewish Community in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthJACOB GOLDBERG
The Jewish Economic Elite in Red Ruthenia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesJÜRGEN HEYDE
Across the River: How and Why the Jews of Kraków Settled in Kazimierz at the End of the Fifteenth CenturyHANNA ZAREMSKA
The Rubinkowski Family, Converts in KazimierzADAM KAŹMIERCZYK
Jews in Public Places: Chapters in the Jewish–Christian Encounter in Seventeenth-Century VilnaDAVID FRICK
‘There should be no love between us and them’: Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern PolandMAGDA TETER
Part II  New Views
Blood and the Hasidim: On the History of Ritual Murder Accusations in Nineteenth-Century PolandMARCIN WODZIŃSKI
Integration and its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in RussiaBRIAN HOROWITZ
Bolesław Prus and the Assimilation of Polish JewsAGNIESZKA FRIEDRICH
Dialogue or Monologue? The Relationship Between Jewish and Polish Journalists in Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyELA BAUER
Gender, Zionism, and Orthodoxy: The Women of the Mizrahi Movement in Poland, 1916–1939ASAF KANIEL
Patriotism and Antisemitism: The Crisis of Polish Jewish Identity between the WarsDAVID ABERBACH
The Nazi Murder of the Jews in Polish Eyes: Views in the Underground Press, 1942–1945KLAUS-PETER FRIEDRICH
The Spring that Passed: The Pikador Poets’ Return to JewishnessMARCI SHORE
Resisting a Phantom Book: A Critical Assessment of the Initial Polish Discussion of Jan Gross’s FearMONIKA RICE
Imagined Diaspora: The Shtetl in Allen Hoffman’s Small Worlds and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is IlluminatedJEREMY SHERE
Obituaries
John Klier
GlossaryNotes on the ContributorsIndex

About the Author

Adam Teller is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. He is the author of two books, both in Hebrew: Living Together: The Jewish Quarter of Poznan and its Inhabitants in the Seventeenth Century (2003) and Money, Power, and Influence: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania (2005). He has published a number of articles on the social, economic, and cultural history of Polish Lithuanian Jewry in the early modern period, and is currently working on a history of the Polish Lithuanian rabbinate in that period. Magda Teter is an Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (2006). Her articles on Polish Jewish history have appeared in Jewish History, AJS Review, Kwartalnik Żydowski, Sixteenth Century Journal, and Gal-ed. Her research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Koret Foundation, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Hanadiv Foundation (Israel), among others. She directs the Early Modern Workshop project. Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.

Reviews

'This is a notable contribution to the leading English-language series on Polish Jewry. It can serve as an ideal starting point for students interested in the development of Judaism in Eastern Europe in pre-modern Poland. The introduction by Teller and Teter offers an incisive picture of much of the historiography of of the period, while many of the articles offer both background and detailed pictures of specific institutions and events that are important for religious studies . . . Libraries with a serious collection dealing with Eastern European Jewish life and culture might want to consider the series in its entirety.'
Shaul Stampfer, Religious Studies Review