Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 29 - Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe

This volume has much to offer scholars of modern Jewry trying to understand how east European Jews saw themselves as they struggled with the concepts of modernity and national identity and how their history continues to be studied and discussed by an international community of scholars.

About the author

Natalia Aleksiun is an associate professor of Jewish History at Touro College, New York.

Brian Horowitz is Sizeler Family Chair Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University.

Antony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and chief historian of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He is Chair of the Editorial Board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.

Summary

Even today, east European Jewish historiography revisits many of the questions of importance to scholars and audiences since its emergence: how Jews lived, both within the narrow Jewish world and in contact with the wider society;

Product details

• Authors: Natalia Aleksiun, Natalia (Graduate School of Jewish Studi Aleksiun, Natalia Horowitz Aleksiun
• Assisted by: Natalia Aleksiun (Editor), Natalia (Graduate School of Jewish Studies Aleksiun (Editor), Brian Horowitz (Editor), Brian J. Horowitz (Editor), Antony Polonsky (Editor), Antony (Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Polonsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2016
• EAN: 9781906764487
• ISBN: 978-1-906764-48-7
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry; Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous