Table of Contents

The beginnings of Jewish settlement in Polish lands Aleksander Gieysztor Merchants and businessmen in Poznan and Cracow, 1588-1668 Daniel Tollet The privileges granted to Jewish communities of the Polish Commonwealth as a stablizing factor in Jewish support Jacob Golberg The implications of Jewish economic activities for Jewish-Christian relations in the Polish Commonwealth Gershon Hundert A footnote to the history of the integration of converts into the ranks of the `szlachta' in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Andrzej Ciechanowiecki Polish society and the Jewish problem in the nineteenth century Stefan Kieniewicz Polish-Jewish relations in the territories annexed by the Russian empire in the first half of the nineteenth century Daniel Beauvois Jews in the Lublin region prior to the January uprising, 1861-1862 Ryszard Bende Rural anti-semitism in Galicia before World War I Frank Golczewski Notes on the assimilation and acculturation of Jews in Poland, 1863-1943 Joseph Lichten Interwar Poland: good for the Jews or bad for the Jews? Ezra Mendelsohn Relations between Polish and Jewish left wing groups in interwar Poland Jerzy Holzer Polish-Jewish relations in occupied Poland 1939-1945 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski The Relief Council for the Jews in Poland, 1942-1945 Teresa Prekerowa Polish and Jewish historiography on the question of Polish-Jewish relations during World War II Yisrael Gutman Polish-Jewish relations 1944-1947 Michal Borwicz The Jewish issue in post-war Polish communist politics Lukasz Hirszowicz.

About the Author

Chimen Abramsky respectively former Goldsmith Professor of Jewish History, University of London.