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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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9781906764715

ISBN 10:   1906764719
Pages:   572
Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART I POLAND AND HUNGARY: JEWISH REALITIES COMPARED Introduction François Guesnet, Howard Lupovitch, and Antony Polonsky JEWISH ACCULTURATION AND INTEGRATION The Magnate–Jewish Symbiosis: Hungarian and Polish Variations on a Theme Howard Lupovitch Ethnic Triangles, Assimilation, and the Complexities of Acculturation in a Multi-ethnic Society Kristian Gerner Between Poland and Hungary: The Process of Jewish Integration from a Comparative Perspective Guy Miron The Ashkenaz of the South: Hungarian Jewry in the Long Nineteenth Century Victor Karády Jews and Poles, 1860–1914: Assimilation, Emancipation, Antisemitism  Theodore R. Weeks Jewish Women in Poland and Hungary Katalin Fenyves Morality, Motherland, and Freedom: The Arduous and Triumphant Journey of Michael Heilprin to America Ferenc Raj and Howard Lupovitch Gender and Scholarship in the Goldziher Household: Jewish Men and Women in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Hungarian Academia Katalin Franciska Rac JEWISH RELIGIOUS LIFE Polish Hasidism and Hungarian Orthodoxy in a Borderland: The Munkács Rabbinate Levi Cooper Polish ‘Progressive’ Judaism and Hungarian Neolog Judaism: A Comparison Benjamin Matis JEWS IN POPULAR CULTURE Integration and Its Discontents: Humorous Magazines and Music Halls as Reflections of the Ambiguous Transformation of Budapest Jews into Magyars of the Jewish Faith Mary Gluck Cabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920–1939 Beth Holmgren The Politics of Exclusion: The Turbulent History of Hungarian and Polish Film, 1896–1945 Susan M. Papp and Antony B. Polonsky THE INTERWAR YEARS Abnormal Times: Intersectionality and Anti-Jewish Violence in Hungary and Poland, 1918–1922 Emily Gioielli Suicides of the Polish and Hungarian Types: Jewish Self-Destruction and Social Cohesion in Interwar Warsaw and Budapest Daniel Rosenthal THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS AFTERMATH On the Margin of a Historic Friendship: Polish Jewish Refugees in Hungary during the Second World War Tamás Kovács Placing the Ghetto: Warsaw and Budapest, 1939–1945  Tim Cole Warsaw and Budapest, 1939–1945: Two Ghettos, Two Policies, Two Outcomes Laszlo Karsai Polish and Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust  George Gömöri   ‘Anti-Fascist Literature’ as Holocaust Literature? The Holocaust in the Hungarian Socialist Literary Marketplace, 1956–1970 Richard S. Esbenshade Holocaust Remembrance in Hungary after the Fall of Communism Zsuzsanna Agora ‘Nicht vor dem Kind!’ Testimonies on the Yellow-Star Houses of Budapest Gwen Jones   ‘Non-Remembering’ the Holocaust in Hungary and Poland Andrea Pető Jews in Museums: Narratives of Nation and ‘Jewishness’ in Post-Communist Hungarian and Polish Public Memory Anna Manchin PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Polish and Hungarian Jews: So Different, Yet So Interconnected: An Interview with István Deák Howard Lupovitch PART II NEW VIEWS Polish 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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