Overview

The book presents Polish-Jewish cultural contacts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using methods from Jewish, cultural, and literary studies, Prokop-Janiec takes a topographical approach by focusing on selected places, institutional spaces, and texts from the borderland. Her reflection begins from changes in the understanding of the borderland phenomenon that happened in recent decades. Transformations within anthropology and the development of a new conceptual framework in Jewish cultural studies provide an opportunity for reinterpreting modern multilingual Jewish culture and its relationships with non-Jewish cultures. The monograph covers rarely considered areas of literature, such as mass-circulated Polish-Jewish newspapers, Polish-Jewish serialized novels, textbooks, and children's literature. Transformations within anthropology and the development of a new conceptual framework in Jewish cultural studies provide an opportunity for reinterpreting modern multilingual Jewish culture and its relationships with non-Jewish cultures. ""A fundamental and essential work for anyone interested in this subject"" - Prof. Sławomir Buryła, University of Warsaw

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Author:   Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9783631912089

ISBN 10:   3631912080
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - THE BORDERLAND - 1. The Category of Borderland in Contemporary Jewish Studies - TOPOGRAPHIES: PLACES, CITIES, INSTITUTION - 2. The Classroom as a Polish-Jewish Contact Zone - 3. Warsaw, Wolnomyśliciel Polski: Assimilationists and Freethinkers toward Yiddish - 4. Warsaw, 5-ta Rano: Sensation and Modernity - 5. London: Wiadomości by Grydzewski the Emigrant - TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS - 6. Women’s Assimilationist Narratives in Galicia: The Works of Aniela Kallas - 7. Teaching Integration the Krakow Way: The Case of Salomon Spitzer - 8. Interwar Polish-Jewish Serialized Novel - 9. Children’s Literature: Palestinian Stories - 10. Biblical Topoi as Commonplaces and Non-Commonplaces in Interwar Polish-Jewish Poetry - 11. Europe, Europe: Opinion Journalism at the End of the Interwar Period - 12. Sholem Aleichem and the Polish-Jewish Literary Audience

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Eugenia Prokop-Janiec is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. A historian of literature and culture, she focuses primarily on modern Polish literature and Polish-Jewish literary and cultural contacts. She has authored several books about Polish and Polish-Jewish literature: Polish-Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years (2003), Literatura i nacjonalizm (2004), Literatura & etnologia (2019).

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