Nr 2 (40)

2017

Publication date: 28.12.2017

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Numer został dofinansowany ze środków Stowarzyszenia Żydowski Instytut Historyczny w Polsce oraz Wydziału Humanistycznego Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie.

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Editor-in-Chief Stanisława Golinowska

Secretary Lidia Jerkiewicz

Guest issue editors Agnieszka Jagodzińska, Monika Jaremków

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Dwie modalności libricide

Katarzyna Liszka

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 187 - 207

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.009.8244

The aim of the article is to describe the complexity of the meaning of the Nazi libricide during the Shoah. The author argues that libricide can be understood according to two modalities of destruction which left people without books on the one hand, and books without people on the other. It is not sufficient to conceptualize libricide from the perspective of the modality which concentrates on the destruction of Jewish books and libraries, without taking into account another modality of destruction, in which what remains are books deprived of three generations of readers, namely the murdered Jews. As to the first modality of libricide, the author follows Rebecca Knuth’s comparative study Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century and, as to the other, George Steiner’s collection of essays Language and Silence.

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Co czytano w czasie Zagłady? Refleksja nad powieścią „Czterdzieści dni Musa Dah” w kontekście żydowskiego ruchu oporu

Weronika Romanik

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 209 - 235

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.010.8245

The article examines a possible perception of Franz Werfel’s novel Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Jewish readers in the ghettos during the Second World War. The archival documents from that time as well as postwar testimonies of Holocaust survivors indicate that the novel was popular especially among young people and members of the Jewish resistance movement. People in the ghettos could easily relate to the events described in a book about the Armenian genocide and even identify themselves with Werfel’s characters. The core documents for the analysis are materials from the Underground Archive of the Białystok Ghetto, including the writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff.

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Wydawcy w służbie idei. O pionierach hebrajskiego świeckiego ruchu wydawniczego

Magda Sara Szwabowicz

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 237 - 263

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.011.8246

The article focuses on the main secular Hebrew publishers and their role in the development of modern Hebrew literature. On the presumption that a publishing house is an institution which forms readership and drives literary production, the author shows that Hebrew publishers were not only modelling the book market but also served as essential promoters of Hebrew writings and as both financial and spiritual supporters of writers. The aim of the paper is to present the most distinguished Hebrew publishers (e.g. Ben-Avigdor or Avraham Stybel) along with their publishing initiatives which were carried out on the Polish lands from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the Second World War. The key issues discussed in the article are the goals publishers set for themselves, their publishing policy and, above all, their contribution to the development of different genres of Hebrew literature.

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Żydzi wileńscy w świetle archiwaliów medycznych z I połowy XIX wieku

Anita Magowska

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 265 - 286

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.012.8247

The article focuses on the registers of patients of the surgical units of the Imperial University of Vilna and the Medical-Surgical Academy in Vilna as interesting sources for the history of Ashkenazi Jews in the city, especially their everyday existence and diseases. Personal data from these registers were analyzed and compared in order to identify the most common health problems and gather some information about patients’ occupations. Jewish medical practitioners have been presented as well. Altogether the dynamics of social changes within the Jewish community of Vilna in the first half of the nineteenth century was assessed as rather slow.

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Shamil:Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism

Edwin Seroussi

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 287 - 306

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.013.8248

The article discusses the conception, performance and reception of nigun Shamil as a representative case of the social, literary and technological mechanisms that characterize music in Habad, past and present. The author argues for the centrality of non-accompanied, mostly wordless vocal tunes performed by the Hasidic masters such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, as a main vehicle for the articulation of both the heightening of mystical experience and the teaching of Hasidism.

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Towards a New Definition of Hasidism

Marcin Wodziński

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 307 - 332

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.014.8249

The author of the article poses the question what Hasidism really is, and whether the belief, still widely-held today, that it was a sect, or a movement similar to a sect, is accurate. Although there are dozens of definitions of Hasidism, all of them are built on doctrinal categories. As the author argues, these kinds of ideological definitions are inadequate, given that they turn Hasidism into an abstract doctrine, disconnected from its believers and their daily practices. Instead, he offers a behavioral, or performative, definition of Hasidism as it was practiced in everyday life. This definition, based on low-profile, often folk testimonies, shows what rank-and-file followers understood by being a Hasid and how they defined their own distinctive features.

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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny jako instytut i stowarzyszenie. Profil działalności i zmiany prawno-organizacyjne

Andrzej Rykała

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 333 - 388

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.015.8250

The Central Jewish Historical Commission (CJHC), transformed after three years into the Jewish Historical Institute (JHI), was established in 1944 to collect, inventory, study and edit materials documenting the war experiences of Polish Jews. As a result of its search for the right legal and organizational form, the Jewish Historical Institute Association was initiated in 1950. The establishment of a legal and organizational framework, in conjunction with the tasks the Association had taken on and the means for their implementation, has initiated a close link between the Association and the Institute. These fundamental origins of a strong dependency system conditioned their further development. This paper defines the profile of activities and analyses the legal and organizational changes of the JHI. The time range of the paper covers the period from 1944, the year the CJHC was formed, until the mid-1990s, when the JHI was separated from the JHI Association as a research institute.

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Tomasz Wiślicz

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 389 - 394

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Michał Szulc, Emanzipation in Stadt und Staat: Die Judenpolitik in Danzig 1807–1847, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ss. 352.

Leszek Ziątkowski

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 394 - 398

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Ellie R. Schainker, Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia 1817–1906, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2017, ss. 339.

Agnieszka Jagodzińska

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 398 - 403

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Shoshana Ronen, A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait, Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, Warsaw 2015, ss. 277.

Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 403 - 408

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Cecile Esther Kuznitz, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation, Cambridge University Press, New York 2014, ss. 307.

Kamil Kijek

Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, pp. 408 - 413

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Słowa kluczowe: Shoah, books, libricide, George Steiner, Rebecca Knuth, Jewish resistance movement, Second World War, ghetto, Franz Werfel, Musa Dagh, Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, Białystok Ghetto, publishing company, Hebrew literature, Ben-Avigdor, Tushiya, Avraham Yosef Stybel, Shlomo Sreberk, diseases affecting Ashkenazi Jews, Jewish surgeons, Jewish physicians, history of medicine, Vilna Jews, Shamil, Habad, Hasidism, music, nigun, Hasidism, Eastern Europe, behavioral definition, sect, confraternity, Central Jewish Historical Commission, Jewish Historical Institute Association, Jewish Historical Institute

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