Modernity and Polish Jews: Recent Developments in Polish-Jewish Historiography

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Abstract

Abstract: The article investigates the differing meanings employed in the concept of modernity by historians of the Polish Jews of the nineteenth century and how it has evolved over the last thirty years. It traces two essential traditions of modernist discourse on the nineteenth-century Polish Jews as following either process-oriented or project-oriented approaches. It also asks whether modernization theory and the concept of modernity are helpful in understanding the nineteenth-century history of the Polish Jews and whether there is anything specific that, when applying these notions to Polish-Jewish history, distinguishes it from the modernity discourse on other European Jewries.

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Keywords: modernity, Poland, Jews, modernization theory, Hasidism, progress, Enlightenment, liberal Judaism.

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Information: Studia Judaica, 2016, pp. 65 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.003.5349

Article type: Original article

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Modernity and Polish Jews: Recent Developments in Polish-Jewish Historiography

English:

Modernity and Polish Jews: Recent Developments in Polish-Jewish Historiography

Authors

Marcin Wodziński

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0281-6391

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

Published at: 05.12.2016

Article status: Open

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Marcin Wodziński (Author) - 100%

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