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Author:   Francois Guesnet (Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London) ,  Howard N. Lupovitch (Wayne State University (United States)) ,  Antony Polonsky (Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw)
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Volume:   31
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9781906764722

ISBN 10:   1906764727
Pages:   572
Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART IPOLAND AND HUNGARY: JEWISH REALITIES COMPARED IntroductionFrançois Guesnet, Howard Lupovitch, and Antony Polonsky JEWISH ACCULTURATION AND INTEGRATIONThe Magnate–Jewish Symbiosis: Hungarian and Polish Variations on a ThemeHoward LupovitchEthnic Triangles, Assimilation, and the Complexities of Acculturation in a Multi-ethnic SocietyKristian GernerBetween Poland and Hungary: The Process of Jewish Integration from a Comparative PerspectiveGuy MironThe Ashkenaz of the South: Hungarian Jewry in the Long Nineteenth CenturyVictor KarádyJews and Poles, 1860–1914: Assimilation, Emancipation, Antisemitism Theodore R. WeeksJewish Women in Poland and HungaryKatalin FenyvesMorality, Motherland, and Freedom: The Arduous and Triumphant Journey of Michael Heilprin to AmericaFerenc Raj and Howard LupovitchGender and Scholarship in the Goldziher Household: Jewish Men and Women in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Hungarian AcademiaKatalin Franciska Rac JEWISH RELIGIOUS LIFEPolish Hasidism and Hungarian Orthodoxy in a Borderland: The Munkács RabbinateLevi CooperPolish ‘Progressive’ Judaism and Hungarian Neolog Judaism: A ComparisonBenjamin Matis JEWS IN POPULAR CULTUREIntegration and Its Discontents: Humorous Magazines and Music Halls as Reflections of the Ambiguous Transformation of Budapest Jews into Magyars of the Jewish FaithMary GluckCabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920–1939Beth HolmgrenThe Politics of Exclusion: The Turbulent History of Hungarian and Polish Film, 1896–1945Susan M. Papp and Antony B. Polonsky THE INTERWAR YEARSAbnormal Times: Intersectionality and Anti-Jewish Violence in Hungary and Poland, 1918–1922Emily GioielliSuicides of the Polish and Hungarian Types: Jewish Self-Destruction and Social Cohesion in Interwar Warsaw and BudapestDaniel Rosenthal THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERMATHOn the Margin of a Historic Friendship: Polish Jewish Refugees in Hungary during the Second World WarTamás Kovács Placing the Ghetto: Warsaw and Budapest, 1939–1945  Tim ColeWarsaw and Budapest, 1939–1945: Two Ghettos, Two Policies, Two OutcomesLaszlo KarsaiPolish and Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust George Gömöri ‘Anti-Fascist Literature’ as Holocaust Literature? The Holocaust in the Hungarian Socialist Literary Marketplace, 1956–1970Richard S. EsbenshadeHolocaust Remembrance in Hungary after the Fall of CommunismZsuzsanna Agora‘Nicht vor dem Kind!’ Testimonies on the Yellow-Star Houses of BudapestGwen Jones ‘Non-Remembering’ the Holocaust in Hungary and PolandAndrea PetőJews in Museums: Narratives of Nation and ‘Jewishness’ in Post-Communist Hungarian and Polish Public MemoryAnna Manchin PERSONAL REFLECTIONSPolish and Hungarian Jews: So Different, Yet So Interconnected: An Interview with István DeákHoward Lupovitch PART IINEW VIEWSPolish National Antisemitism Ireneusz Krzemiński

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Co-editor, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków. Howard Lupovitch is an associate professor of history and director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729—1878 (Budapest, 2007) and is currently writing a history of the Neolog movement. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012, The Jews in Poland and Russia 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. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he 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.

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