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This book highlights the modernity of Polish Jewish culture through its literature, poetry, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the visual arts, and music in urban centers large and small. The contributors expertly reassert the belonging of Jews in Polish lands and showcase the multivalent texture of Polish Jewish cultural production before World War II.
List of 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," Bo¿ena Shallcross
Chapter 4: "Jewish Expressionism between Discourses of Revival and Degeneration: The
Yung-yidish Group," Mägorzata 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 Koz¿owska
Chapter 7: "Music of 'the Foreign Nations' or 'Native Culture': Concert Programming in Interwar Lwów as a Discourse about Jewish Musical Identities," Sylwia Jakubczyk-¿leczka
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 Mälak-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
About the author
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 ¿ód¿. 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. 
