TY - JOUR
TI - Modernity and Polish Jews: Recent Developments in Polish-Jewish Historiography
AU - Wodziński, Marcin
TI - Modernity and Polish Jews: Recent Developments in Polish-Jewish Historiography
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2016
IS - Nr 1 (37)
PY - 2016
SN - 1506-9729
C1 - 2450-0100
SP - 65
EP - 86
DO - 10.4467/24500100STJ.16.003.5349
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/modernity-and-polish-jews-recent-developments-in-polish-jewish-historiography
KW - Keywords: modernity
KW - Poland
KW - Jews
KW - modernization theory
KW - Hasidism
KW - progress
KW - Enlightenment
KW - liberal Judaism.