The Jews in Polish Culture

by Aleksander Hertz, Richard Lourie (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by), Lucjan Dobroszycki (Editor)

Overview

Jews in Polish Culture was and in large measure remains an essentially pioneering work. Despite the passage of many years, the book's thrust has retained its initial, original freshness. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810107588
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1988
Series:	Jewish Lives
Edition description:	1
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ALEKSANDER HERTZ (1895–1983) was a Polish sociologist.

LUCJAN DOBROSZYCKI (1925–1995) was a Polish historian and survivor of Auschwitz. He focused on modern Polish and Polish-Jewish history.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Czesław Miłosz
Editor's Introduction by Lucjan Dobroszycki
Introduction
The Sabbath Candles Have Gone Out
The Kindred and the Alien
Caste
Those Who Leave the Caste
Within the Caste or Outside It?
Against the Caste
The Crisis
The Image of the Jew
In the Service of Polish Culture
Afterword
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The author's marginal position in the Polish-Jewish context, his experience of American society and his sociological equipment and profound insight have enabled him to produce work of unique character and intellectual quality. It is a must for all those interested in Poland, Polish Jewry, and inter-ethnic relations in general." —Dr. Lukasz Hirszowicz, Soviet-Jewish Affairs


"A richly perceptive sociological consideration of the Jewish community as a caste in 19th and early-20th-century Poland . . . A book that should be part of any study of modern Polish culture or Diaspora Jewry."  —Kirkus Reviews

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