Marek Tuszewicki
Studia Judaica, Nr 1 (53), 2024, s. 185 - 211
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.24.008.19901Marek Tuszewicki
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Volume 13, 2015, s. 93 - 112
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.15.008.4230Marek Tuszewicki
Przekładaniec, Numer 29 – Przekład żydowski. Żydowskość w przekładzie , 2014, s. 137 - 154
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.14.019.3004Marek Tuszewicki
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (46), 2020, s. 281 - 307
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.20.014.13657Residents of Jewish Homes for the Aged in the Polish Lands (until 1939)
Jewish homes for the aged (moshav zkenim) began to be established in Eastern Europe in the 1840s. In the interwar period, probably over sixty Jewish institutions of this kind operated in Poland, providing care for several thousand people. We know relatively much about the figures of their founders, benefactors, social activists, and senior employees. However, gaining information about residents themselves requires much more intensive queries. The article is based primarily on articles, reports, and announcements appearing in Jewish press, supplemented by accounts published in memorial books and other sources, to recreate a general portrait of people who lived under the care of such institutions in Warsaw, Lemberg (Lviv), Vilnius, and other places.
Marek Tuszewicki
Studia Judaica, Nr 1 (33), 2014, s. 39 - 55
The paper focuses on a few topics crucial for the study of medical beliefs and practices among the traditional Ashkenazi population of Eastern Europe. Primarily based on Yiddish memoirs and Jewish memorial books (yizker bikher), published since the last decades of the nineteenth century, it is supported with references to other ethnographic sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and other languages. A closer examination of this material leads to the conclusion that popular beliefs and practices were not haphazard, but constituted a rich heterogeneous medical system. The analysis casts a new light on help-seeking behaviors and enables better comprehension of their natural and mythological meaning.