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Author:   Halina Goldberg ,  Nancy Sinkoff ,  Natalia Aleksiun ,  Zehavit Stern
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
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9781978836037

ISBN 10:   1978836031
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   15 September 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents  A Note on Place Names, Personal Names, and Transliterations  Introduction, Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff  Part I: Tradition and Rebellion  Chapter 1: ""'A Holiday that Applies to Everyone': Ararat Kleynkunst Theater and the Challenge of Populist Modernism,"" Zehavit Stern Chapter 2: ""Elkhonen Vogler, Forgotten Poet of Yung-Vilne, in Vilna and the Litvak Borderlands,"" Justin Cammy Chapter 3: ""Scandalous Glass House: On Modernist Transparency in Architecture and Life,"" Bożena Shallcross Chapter 4: ""Jewish Expressionism between Discourses of Revival and Degeneration: The Yung-yidish Group,"" Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia Part II: Performers and Audiences Chapter 5: ""The Theatrics of Bais Yaakov,"" Naomi Seidman Chapter 6: ""A Spectacle of Differences: Bracha Zefira's Tour of Poland in 1929,"" Magdalena Kozłowska Chapter 7: ""Music of 'the Foreign Nations' or 'Native Culture': Concert Programming in Interwar Lwów as a Discourse about Jewish Musical Identities,"" Sylwia Jakubczyk-Śleczka Chapter 8: ""From Lodzermensz to Szmonces and Back: On the Multidirectional Flow of Culture,"" Marcos Silber Part III: Maps and Spaces Chapter 9: ""The Layered Meanings of an Unbuilt Monument: Kraków Jews Commemorate the Polish King Casimir the Great,"" Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska Chapter 10: ""Mapping Modern Jewish Kraków: Women—Cultural Production—Space,"" Eugenia Prokop-Janiec Chapter 11: ""Movie Theaters and the Development of Jewish Public Space in Interwar Poland,"" Ela Bauer  Chapter 12: ""The Politics of Jewish Youth Movement Culture in Interwar Poland's Eastern Borderlands,"" Daniel Heller  Appendix  Acknowledgments  Bibliography Notes on Contributors  Index  "

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Polish Jewish life and culture has always been regional, diversely reflected in a multitude of centers from shtetlekh to urban working-class districts to provincial capitals. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars of Polish Jewry present original essays on the varieties of Jewish culture that once flourished in and around Poland. --Jeffrey Veidlinger author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Ho This splendid collection of essays breaks new ground in the study of Polish Jews and their cultural engagements. They redraw the map, bring centers and peripheries into unexpected relations, delineate cultural spaces in novel ways, and treat topics never before considered with a bracing freshness. --Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"""Polish Jewish life and culture has always been regional, diversely reflected in a multitude of centers from shtetlekh to urban working-class districts to provincial capitals. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars of Polish Jewry present original essays on the varieties of Jewish culture that once flourished in and around Poland.""--Jeffrey Veidlinger ""author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Ho"" ""This splendid collection of essays breaks new ground in the study of Polish Jews and their cultural engagements. They redraw the map, bring centers and peripheries into unexpected relations, delineate cultural spaces in novel ways, and treat topics never before considered with a bracing freshness.""--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ""Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews"" (10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM)"

Author Information

Halina Goldberg is a professor of music and chair of the Department of Musicology at Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of Music in Chopin’s Warsaw, editor of a special issue of the Musical Quarterly devoted to Jewish culture and music, and director of the digital project Jewish Life in Interwar Łódź.   Nancy Sinkoff is a professor of Jewish studies and history and academic director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, at Rutgers University–New Brunswick in New Jersey. She is the author of From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History and Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands. 

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