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The Jewish Community: Authority and Social Control in Poznan and Swarzedz 1650-1793 – ebook
Anna Michałowska-Mycielska
"Książka - napisana przede wszystkim na podstawie źródeł żydowskich, przeważnie w języku hebrajskim - stanowi cenny wkład w badania nad dziejami Żydów w Polsce. Na przykładzie gmin w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu pokazuje mechanizmy funkcjonowania i politykę władz gminy żydowskiej w epoce nowożytnej w okresie między zakończeniem wojen szwedzkich a schyłkiem Rzeczypospolitej. Szczegółowy opis oraz analiza struktury...Data dostępności:
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What's cooking. Jewish culinary culture – ebook
Tamara Sztyma Magdalena Maślak
Culinary culture is a vital element of the Jewish identity—while enhancing the sense of belonging to a community, it testifies to Jewish distinctiveness. Shaped over millennia in different locations all across the globe, it has remained very diverse until today. That is why the tale about Jewish food is simultaneously a tale about Jewish religion, culture and history.Data dostępności:
Art in Jewish society – ebook
Jerzy Malinowski Renata Piątkowska Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia Tamara Sztyma
The book Art in Jewish society contains a wide spectrum of interpretations of Jewish art in the social and cultural context. The authors of these studies presented the profiles of artists and people of art as well as artistic trends against the social and cultural background prevalent in the Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe from the period of emancipation until the mid-twentieth century....Data dostępności:
Understanding Human Being: Essays on Jewish Anthropology – ebook
The Jewish philosophy created after the Holocaust finds a great reception, especially its question of people’s existence. Tragedy of the Holocaust hurt each of the Jew to a horrendous degree. People’s suffering is difficult to imagine, people who experienced tearing away humanity, saw torments and death of both their closest family and distant relatives as well neighbours. No wonder that after the...Data dostępności:
Representations of Jewish people in Canadian literature of the 1940s and 1950s – ebook
Dominika Stasiak-Maziarz
The historical background to a Jewish presence in Canada is very well researched the sections on critical analysis of individual texts are strong and insightful. Good use is made of particular texts as examples of general or theoretical propositions, e.g. Wiseman’s novel The Sacrifice is used extensively in the theoretical section on travel writing to test and illuminate theory. This study makes a...Data dostępności:
Legacy of Polish Jews – ebook
How did Polish Jews contribute to the development of Polish, Jewish and world civilization? What influence did Polish-Jewish roots exert on their unique biographies, life choices and inspirations? What obstacles did they have to surmount? Thirteen authors pose questions on the relation between Polish and Jewish cultures by taking a close look at the lives of prominent Jewish men and women whose achievements...Data dostępności:
Living in the Land of Ashes – ebook
Konstanty Gebert
Is there Jewish life in Poland after the Shoah? Should there be? How do present-day Polish Jews, children and grand-children of survivors, relate both to the wartime horrors and to the glorious history of Polish Jewry which preceded them? Do they feel comfortable living as a tiny minority in an overwhelmingly Catholic country? How do their Polish and Jewish identities interact? How did living for forty...Data dostępności:
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The Council of Lithuanian Jews 1623-1764 – ebook
Anna Michałowska-Mycielska
The Council of Lithuanian Jews (Lithuanian Vaad) was the central representative organ of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It operated for nearly one and a half centuries (1623-1764), touching all spheres of the Jewish community's life. It undertook important initiatives for the benefit of its constituency at diets and dietines (legislative assemblies of the nobility), at the courts of the...Data dostępności:
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An Eye for an Eye – ebook
William Le Queux
An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans „many of them starved, beaten and tortured” and estimates that „more than 60,000 died at the hands...Data dostępności:
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A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction: Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Port – ebook
Shoshana Ronen
A study of a prominent figure on both Jewish and Polish political landscapes in the historical period which lasted from the beginning of the final years of the nineteenth century to the late 1930s, represents a scholarly undertaking of a particularly challenging nature. The project revives, so-to-speak, a practically forgotten epitome of the era, the multifaceted figure of a Jewish scholar, rabbi,...Data dostępności:
Kazania dla młodzieży żydowskiej w Galicji. Tom 2 – ebook
Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska
Prezentowana książka zawiera wybór 88 kazań dla młodzieży żydowskiej (tzw. egzort), które powstały w Galicji pod koniec XIX i w pierwszych dekadach XX wieku. Stanowiły one część edukacji religijnej uczniów żydowskich uczęszczających do świeckich szkół, zarówno szczebla podstawowego, jak i średniego, czyli gimnazjów. Autorami kazań byli nauczyciele, m.in. Natan Szyper, Arnold Friedman czy Samuel Wolf...Data dostępności:
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EUROPE 1939-1945 Who supported Hitler and who fought against him – ebook
Ewa Kurek
Książka opisująca relacje państw Europy z Adolfem Hitlerem w latach 1939-1945 Ewa Kurek – polska historyk, autorka książek o tematyce historycznej. Od lat bada i opisuje w swoich publikacjach stosunki polsko-żydowskie. Doktor historii, a także absolwentka Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. Autorka m.in. ,,Poza granicą solidarności – stosunki polsko-żydowskie 1939-1945", "Jedwabne – Anatomia kłamstwa",...Data dostępności:
Here is Muranów. A District that Grew Beyond the Rubble – ebook
Muranów is unique on the map of Warsaw: the Northern Quarter inhabited mainly by the Jewish population, it was a home to the largest Jewish community in Europe before WW2. Transformed into the largest Jewish ghetto in occupied Europe during the war, it was then razed to the ground along with its residents. The planners who reconstructed the Polish capital after wartime destruction built a new Modernist...Data dostępności:
Kazania dla młodzieży żydowskiej w Galicji. Tom 2 – ebook
Prezentowana książka zawiera wybór 88 kazań dla młodzieży żydowskiej (tzw. egzort), które powstały w Galicji pod koniec XIX i w pierwszych dekadach XX wieku. Stanowiły one część edukacji religijnej uczniów żydowskich uczęszczających do świeckich szkół, zarówno szczebla podstawowego, jak i średniego, czyli gimnazjów. Autorami kazań byli nauczyciele, m.in. Natan Szyper, Arnold Friedman czy Samuel Wolf...Data dostępności:
Daniel Deronda – ebook
George Eliot
Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair. George Eliot’s radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures...Data dostępności:
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Off on a Comet – ebook
Jules Verne
Jules Verne’s novel „Hector Servadac” tells about the adventures of the captain of the French troops and his friends, who, as a result of an unprecedented disaster, fell on a fragment of the globe captured by a flying comet. Hector, his orderly, the Russian Count Timashev, a colony of English soldiers from Gibraltar, an Italian girl with a goat, a Jewish money-lender and another odd scientist are forced...Data dostępności:
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Pearl Maiden – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Pearl Maiden is an intriguing and exciting story, especially for those who love historical fiction. The story of Miriam, who was born immediately after the first persecution of Christians soon after the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Although her parents do not survive, she becomes a Christian and is an observer of the fall of Jerusalem to Rome. Historical accuracy is clearly and clearly described:...Data dostępności:
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Last Train Out – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Though dated stylistically, this novel has the makings of a decent movie thriller. The story takes place between the Anschluss, the Nazi takeover of Austria, March 1938, and the invasion of Poland in September 1939. A wealthy Jewish banker, philanthropist, and art collector is forced to flee Vienna to avoid imprisonment by the Nazi’s. He disappears on the night the Germans march into Austria, and his...Data dostępności:
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At the Mercy of Strangers. Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland – audiobook
Gitel Hopfeld
At the Mercy of Strangers is an important addition to Holocaust literature for a number of reasons. It is a document about the survival of one individual and her two children. As a first hand account about survival during the Holocaust, it offers unique insight. It also documents how Polish friends, acquaintances and even strangers helped to ensure the survival of one Jewish family during the bleak...Data dostępności:
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Mickiewicz i świat żydowski: Studium z aneksami – ebook
Andrzej Fabianowski
Autor przedstawia relacje, jakie łączyły Mickiewicza z szeroko pojętym judaizmem, z którym poeta zetknął się, przebywając na emigracji oraz jego zainteresowanie mistyką żydowską, kabałą, reinkarnacją, literaturą i kulturą Żydów. Obszerne studium uzupełniają teksty, które szczegółowo analizują różne „żydowskie” wątki w życiu i twórczości Mickiewicza, a także innych wybitnych polskich romantyków (J....Data dostępności: