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Part 1. Jewish Autonomy. Autonomy in Jewish History (1934) / by Simon Dubnow -- Jewish Parliament in Lithuania and Belorussia in Its Legislative Activity, 1623-1721 (1928) / by Israel Sosis -- Budget of the Council of the Four Lands in 1726 (1940) / by Raphael Mahler -- Financial Collapse of the Central and Provincial Autonomy of the Jews in Old-Time Poland, 1650-1764 (1932) / by Ignacy Schiper -- Central Representative Bodies of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1816 (1938) / by Artur Eisenbach -- Warsaw Kehila under the Leadership of Dr. Ludwik Natanson, 1871-1896 (1953) / by Jacob Shatzky -- Jewish "Autonomy": The Nazi-Imposed Jewish Councils (1949) / by Isaiah Trunk. |
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Part 2. On the Jewish Street. Yiddish Theater in the German and Slavic Ghettos during the Sixteenth Century (1927) / by Ignacy Schiper -- The Structure of the Jewish Guilds in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1928) / by Mark Wischnitzer -- Two Communities in One City: The Jews of Lemberg from Medieval to Modern Times (1930) / by Meir Balaban -- Young Historians Circle in Warsaw, 1923-1939 (1967) / by Raphael Mahler -- Varied Were the Ways (of Jewish Resistance against the Nazis) (1946) / by Mark Dworzecki -- Wooden Synagogues in Poland before the Holocaust (1962) / by Rachel Wischnitzer -- Soup Kitchen and the Yiddish Theater in the Warsaw Ghetto (1977) / by Rachel Auerbach. |
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Part 5. Press, Post, Communications. Life and Language as Reflected by Yiddish Testimony in the Responsa Literature from the Beginning of the Fifteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1929) / by Zalman Rubashov -- Jewish Postal Service in Tsarist Russia during the Early Nineteenth Century (1932) / by Saul Ginsburg, -- First Yiddish Newspaper in the Russian Empire, Kol mevaser, and Its Time, 1862-72 (1913) / by Israel Zinberg -- Attitude toward Yiddish of the Russian Authorities in Vilna during the 1860s: On the History of Yiddish Bookselling in Vilna (1929) / by Pinchas Kon -- Ghettos and Concentration Camps Seeking Contacts: A Chapter of Jewish Resistance (1949) / by Mark Dworzecki -- Unknown Letters by Zelig Kalmanovich in the Vilna Ghetto to Isaac Giterman in the Warsaw Ghetto (1983) / by Joseph Kermish -- Inscriptions on Walls, Sacred Texts, and Other Books during the Holocaust (1966) / by Nachman Blumental. |
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Part 3. In the Non-Jewish World. Jewish-Christian Relations in Płock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1938) / by Isaiah Trunk -- What Types of Taxes Did the Jews of Lublin Pay in the Former Independent Poland? (1930) / by Bela Mandelsberg -- Jewish Home Industry in Old-Time Poland (1935) / by Emanuel Ringelblum -- "New Settlements" in 1808: How Belorussian Jews Responded to the First Order to Settle in Agricultural Colonies in Russian Ukraine (1932) / by Simon Dubnow -- Jewish Cantonists -- Young Boys Recruited for Military Service in Tsarist Russia, 1828-1956 (1933) / by Saul Ginsburg, 1933 -- Antisemitism and Pogroms in Ukraine, 1917-1918: On the History of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations (1923) / by Elias Tcherikower -- On the Causes of Jewish Defenselessness against the Nazis and the Strength of Jewish Resistance (1953) / by Isaiah Trunk. |
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Part 4. Yiddish Literature. Brantshpigl (Burning Mirror), 1596 -- The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Woman in the Seventeenth Century (1926) / by Maks Erik -- On the Sources of the Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), 1602 (1926) / by Israel Zinberg -- Three Hundred Years of the Tsene-rene (Bible Stories for Women), 1616 (1928) / by Jacob Shatzky -- Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1815): Hasidism and Yiddish Literary Creativity (1932) / by Shmuel Niger -- On the History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Haskalah Period (1939) / by Meir Wiener -- Four Unknown Yiddish Plays from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1930) / by Max Weinreich -- Yiddish Literature under Nazi Occupation (1946) / by Nachman Blumental. |
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Part 6. Education. Joseph Perl as a Pedagogical Leader and His School in Tarnopol 125 Years after Its Founding (1940) / by Philip Friedman -- Yehuda-Leib Gordon as a Fighter for the Haskalah in Jewish Schools in Lithuania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1938) / by Nadzieja Jaffe -- Rise of Yiddish Secular Schools in Poland during World War I (1947) / by Chaim-Solomon Kazdan -- Jewish Schools in the Vilna Ghetto as Spiritual Resistance (1948) / by Mark Dworzecki -- Jewish Vocational and Higher School System in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-42 (1949) / by Esther Goldhar-Mark -- School System and Education for Holocaust Survivors in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (1948) / by Philip Friedman -- Four Years of the Chair for Holocaust Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1963) / by Mark Dworzecki. |
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Part 7. Book Reviews. History of the Jews in Russia (1914) / Reviewed by Zelig Kalmanovich -- Saul Ginsburg. Historical Works (1937) / Reviewed by Moyshe Shalit -- Isaiah Trunk. The History of the Jews in Płock (1939) / Reviewed by A. Valdman -- Jacob Shatzky. In the Shadow of the Past (1947) / Reviewed by Samuel Rollansky -- Philip Friedman. Auschwitz (1950) / Reviewed by Julien Hirshaut -- Mark Dworzecki. White Nights and Black Days: Jewish Camps in Estonia (1970) / Reviewed by Israel Kaplan -- Nachman Blumental. Words and Sayings from the Holocaust Period (1981) / Reviewed by David Shtokfish. |
| Abstract |
"In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the "Yiddish historians" who helped to uncover the history of East-European Jews. Before the Holocaust, their mission was to discover and present the formative history of a living people for an audience of educated lay leaders, drawing where possible on Jewish sources of information, in order to help build and fortify a Yiddish-speaking nation. After the Holocaust, their mission became to console its surviving remnant with information about the struggle to survive under German occupation. This book makes Yiddish writings by these historians available in English for the first time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | English translations from the Yiddish. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Building and consoling a nation Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2025 9798897830732 |
| LCCN | 2025047721 |
| ISBN | 9798897830725 |
| ISBN | 9798897831289 hardcover |
| ISBN | adobe electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
