Table of Contents

• Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration Part I Jewish Popular Culture in Poland its Afterlife Introduction MICHAEL C. STEINLAUF The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk ARIELA KRASNEY Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870-1940 WALTER ZEV FELDMAN Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland MICHAEL AYLWARD Jewish Theatre in Poland MICHAEL C. STEINLAUF A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khaym Betsalel Grinberg's Di khevre-kedishe sude FRANA OIS GUESNET Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folksong and the Cabaret Song NATAN GROSS Simkhe Plakhte: From 'Folklore' to Literary Artefact SETH L. WOLITZ Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century SHALOM SABAR Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia JOSHUA SHANES Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland NATAN COHEN Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Toward a History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland ELLEN KELLMAN Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press EDWARD PORTNOY From 'Madagaskar' to Sachsenhausen: Singing about 'Race' in a Nazi Camp BRET WERB and BARBARA MILEWSKI The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations YAAKOV MAZOR Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski's Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context ALEX LUBET 'The Time of Vishniac': Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts JEFFREY SHANDLER Repopulating Jewish Poland-in Wood ERICA LEHRER The Krakow Jewish Culture Festival RUTH ELLEN GRUBER Part II Documents A. Litvin: Chronicler of Jewish Souls Michael C. Steinlauf Excerpts from Yidishe neshomes A. LITVIN Urke Nachalnik: A Voice from the Underworld GWIDO ZLATKES Excerpts from Zyciorys wlasny przestepcy URKE NACHALNIK Part III New Views Making a Space for Antisemitism: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the Early Twentieth Century BRIAN PORTER Polish 'Neighbours' and German Invaders: Anti-Jewish Violence in the Bialystok District during the Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa ALEXANDER B. ROSSINO Jews in the Polish Security Apparatus: An Attempt to Test the Stereotype ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI Part IV Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Some Remarks on Leszek Hondo's Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Krakow ANDRZEJ TRZCINSKI and MARCIN WODZINSKI The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral ANNA LANDAU-CZAJKA The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967-1968 WLODZIMIERZ ROZENBAUM BOOK REVIEWS CORRESPONDENCE Exchange between Jozef Lewandowski and Joanna Rostropowich Clark Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Strauber, and Alina Cala OBITUARIES Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) GARY FITELBERG Stanislaus A. Blejwas (1941-2001) JOHN RADZILOWSKI Notes on the Contributors Glossary Index

About the Author

Michael C. Steinlauf is Associate Professor of History at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. 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 massive volume is a pioneering step in the study of popular Jewish culture in Poland ... a fascinating collection.' Shulamith Z. Berger, AJL Newsletter 'Without a doubt, an important contribution to the study of the folk and popular culture of Polish Jewry ... Such an important collection of articles ... must be read from cover to cover.' Itzik Gottesman, Forverts