Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital

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. 

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