Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 37

François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London. He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies and has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. He is the editor, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 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. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 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. Katrin Steffen is DAAD Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture at the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. She is a member of the editorial staff of Medaon: A Journal for Jewish Life in Research and Education, and has held research fellowships in Warsaw, Jerusalem, Lviv, and Leipzig. Her publications include Blut und Metall. Die transnationale Wissensräume von Ludwik Hirszfeld und Jan Czochralski im 20 Jahrhundert (2021).

Introduction

François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Katrin Steffen

1. ENCOUNTERS BEFORE 1800

Solomon Dubno: an Eastern European Maskil and the German Haskalah

Zuzanna Krzemień

Feminine Discontent and Social Control in Maskilic Comedy and Sturm und Drang Melodrama

Marc Caplan

Mecklenburg-Poland. The Emotional History of A Jewish Hyphen, 1750--1800

Malgorzata Maksymiak

Encounters between Jews and Non-Jews in Prussian Warsaw, 1796--1806

Markus Nesselrodt

2. ENCOUNTERS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Yosl ben Todros: S. Y. Agnon on the Language of Ashkenaz

Israel Bartal

Samuel Adler: A German Reform Rabbi and the Lemberg Temple

Rachel Manekin

The Jews of Lemberg between the Viennese Kaffeehaus and the Polish Kawiarnia

Delphine Bechtel

A Master of Interference: The Daytsh in Yiddish Literature

Marie Schumacher-Brunhes

The Linguistic Politics of Jewish Emancipation: Leon Pinsker between German, Yiddish, and Hebrew

Marc Volovici

German Literature in Yiddish Translation, 1891--1939

Agnieszka Żółkiewska

Sir Toggenburg of the Shtetl: Friedrich Schiller in the East European Jewish Imagination

Sonia Gollance

3. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Narratives of the First World War: Multiple Jewish Perspectives

Alina Molisak

Jewish Laughter and Jewish Tears: The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism in the Joke Pages of the Yiddish Press in 1930s Poland

Anne-Christin Klotz

An Inverted Hierarchy: Ostjuden and Yekkes in Mandatory Palestine, 1933–1948

Nathan Friedenberg

The Polenaktionen of October 1938 and September 1939. From Expulsion to Extermination

Aline Bothe

4. WARTIME, HOLOCAUST, POST-HOLOCAUST

‘Between us and them there still stands a wall’: German Jews Deported to the Warsaw Ghetto, Spring 1942

Maria Ferenc and Katarzyna Person

Collaboration, Complexity, and ‘Integrated History’: Jewish and German Historiographical Representations of Non-German Perpetrators during the Holocaust

Laura Jokusch and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

5. 1945 TO THE PRESENT

Wrocław Jewish Transports, 1946: Persecuted as Jews, Expelled as Germans, Not Recognized as Victims

Maria Luft

Enduring Taboos: Jewish Life in Post-War Germany, 1945--1960

Joseph Cronin

Germans, Jews and Poles: On the Difficult New Beginning of Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main after 1945

Tobias Freimüller

Responses to Silence: The Jewish Museums in Berlin and Warsaw

Michael Meng

Recovery versus Regression: Identity and Impact in the Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pawlikowski’s Ida and Petzold’s Phoenix

Mendel Weintraub

6. THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GERMAN AND EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH CULTURES

A German Jewish Head Teacher in Lithuania: Memories of Schwabe’s Hebrew Gymnasium in Kovno

Tessa Rajak