Table of Contents

• Part 1 Jews, Poles, socialists - the failure of an ideal: Jewish socialists in the Kingdom of Poland, Alina Cala; the Jewish problem in Polish socialist thought, Michal Sliwa; the relation of the Polish Socialist Party, proletariat to the Bund and the Jewish question, 1900-1906, Janusz Sujecki; the Jews, the Left, and the state Duma elections in Warsaw in 1912 - selected sources, Stephen D. Corrsin; Jews and the Russian Revolution - a note, Richard Pipes; the Bund in Poland, 1935-1939, Daniel Blatman; Lodz remained red - elections to the City Council of 27 September 1936, Barbara Wachowska; the Jews of Vilna under Soviet rule, 19 September-28 October 1939, Dov Levin; the Polish underground and the extermination of the Jews, Shmuel Krakowski; the Jewish underground and the Polish underground, Teresa Prekerowa; the Pogrom in Kielce on 4 July 1946, Stanislaw Meducki; antisemitism in Poland in 1956, Pawel Machcewicz. Part 2 New views: Dov of Bolechow - a diarist of the Council of Four Lands in the 18th century, Israel Bartal; a peacable community at work - the Chevrah of Nasielsk, Ross Kessel; Zionist pioneering youth movements in Poland and their attittude to Erets Israel during the Holocaust, Dina Porat; resistance through education - Polish Zionist youth movements in Warsaw, 1939-1941, Erica Nadelhaft; the Second Competition of Scholarly Works on Polish Jewish Themes, Alina Cala.

About the Author

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. Israel Bartal is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and the former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gershon Hundert is Professor of History and holds the Montreal Jewish Community Chair in Jewish Studies at McGill University. Magdalena Opalski is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Central/East European and Russian Area Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. Jerzy Tomaszewski is Professor of History in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the Mordecai Anieliewicz Centre for the Study of the History and Culture of Polish Jews.