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Review: "Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky" / Glenn Dynner, François Guesnet (ed.). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-04-29181-2

  • Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis is an impressive collection of twenty five scholarly essays devoted to Warsaw and its Jewish community, from the earliest (mostly illegal) Jewish settlements in the Polish capital in the sixteenth century to the destruction and reconstruction of the Jewish community in the twentieth century. The book is divided into two parts: Part I ("The Rise of the Metropolis") discusses over four centuries of Jewish history in Warsaw prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Part II ("Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath") presents new approaches to the tragic events of the post-1939 era. As the editors argue in the introduction to the volume, Warsaw's status of 'the first true metropolis in diasporic Jewish history' was not only about the numbers of Jews living there, but also about the diversity of the Jewish community (p. 2). This element became one of the recurring themes in almost all essays discussing the pre-war period.

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Author:Milosz K. Cybowski
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10143
DOI:https://doi.org/10.11584/opus4-1014
Editor:Markus Nesselrodt
Document Type:Review
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/02/26
Date of first Publication:2016/12/19
Publishing Institution:Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Creating Corporation:Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)
Release Date:2021/03/01
Institutes:Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien
Licence (German):License LogoKeine Lizenz - es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht
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