Insiders and Outsiders – Dilemmas of East European Jewry

Richard I. Cohen holds the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he co-edited The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (published by the Littman Library). The late Jonathan Frankel was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Stefani Hoffman is the former director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Note on Transliteration Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders: A General Introduction Steven E. Aschheim PART I: INSIDER/OUTSIDER: THE CULTURAL CONUNDRUM 1 The Project of Jewish Culture and its Boundaries---Insiders and Outsiders Richard I. Cohen 2 Gott fun Avrohom: Itzik Manger and Avot Yeshurun Look Homewards Zvi Jagendorf 3 Agony and Resurrection: The Figure of Jesus in the Work of Reuven Rubin Amitai Mendelsohn 4 Mihail Sebastian: A Jewish Writer and his (Antisemitic) Master Leon Volovici 5 Insiders/Outsiders: Poles and Jews in Recent Polish Jewish Fiction and Autobiography Karen Auerbach and Antony Polonsky PART II: ACCULTURATION, ASSIMILATION, AND IDENTITY 6 Negotiating Czechoslovakia: The Challenges of Jewish Citizenship in a Multiethnic Nation- State Hillel J. Kieval 7 The Debate over Assimilation in Late Nineteenth-Century Lwow Rachel Manekin 8 The Culture of Ethno-Nationalism and the Identity of Jews in Inter-War Poland: Some Responses to 'the Aces of Purebred Race' Joanna B. Michlic PART III: INCLUSION/EXCLUSION: SOCIETY AND POLITICS 9 Urban Society, Popular Culture, Participatory Politics: On the Culture of Modern Jewish Politics in Congress Poland Scott Ury 10 The 'Non-Jewish Jews' Revisited: Solzhenitsyn and the Issue of National Guilt Jonathan Frankel 11 The Jewish Informer as Extortionist and Idealist Ruth R. Wisse PART IV. TWO CITIES AND TALES OF BELONGING 12 A Jewish El Dorado? Myth and Politics in Habsburg Czernowitz David Rechter 13 Wilno/Vilnius/Vilne: Whose City Is It Anyway? Mordechai Zalkin Notes on Contributors Index