Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3: The Jews of Warsaw

A central core of articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries covers the history of Jewish settlement; Jewish population in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early Partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the First World War; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Warsaw Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the Holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.

Author: Antony Polonsky

Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Publication Date: Aug 01, 2004

Number of Pages: 474 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1904113184

ISBN-13: 9781904113188