Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, cartea 18

ChaeRan Freeze is Associate Professor of East European Jewish History at Brandeis University. Paula Hyman is Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. Antony Polonsky is holder of the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration Part I Jewish Women in Eastern Europe Introduction: An Historiographical Survey ChaeRan Freeze and Paula Hyman The History of Jewish Women in Early Modern Poland: An Assessment Moshe Rosman The Maskilot: Between Feminine and Feminist Writing? Tova Cohen Sins of Youth, Guilt of a Grandmother: M. L. Lilienblum, Pauline Wengeroff, and the Telling of Jewish Modernity in Eastern Europe Shulamit S. Magnus Women's Education in the Pages of the Russian Jewish Press Eliyana R. Adler The Call to Serve: Jewish Women Medical Students in Russia, 1872-1887 Carole B. Balin When Chava Left Home: Gender, Conversion, and the Jewish Family in Tsarist Russia ChaeRan Freeze The Lost Generation: Education and Female Conversion to Catholicism in Fin-de-Siecle Krakow Rachel Manekin Feminism and Fiction: Khane Blankshteyn's Role in Inter-War Vilna Ellen Kellman Feminism and Nationalism on the Pages of Ewa: Tygodnik, 1928-1933 Eva Plach Interview with Professor Jadwiga Maurer Katarzyna Zechenter Bibliography: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe Karen Auerbach Part II New Views Jewish Settlement in the Polish Commonwealth in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Zenon Guldon and Waldemar Kowalski Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz on Polish Jewry Jakub Goldberg Translation as a Weapon for the Truth: The Bund's Policy of Multilingualism, 1902-1906 Susanne Marten-Finnis Poles in the German Local Police in Eastern Poland and their Role in the Holocaust Martin Dean Part III Reviews review essays Communist Questions, Jewish Answers: Polish Jewish Dissident Communists of the Inter-War Era Jack Jacobs On Solzhenitsyn's 'Middle Path' Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Three Books on the Lodz Ghetto Helene J. Sinnreich BOOK Reviews OBITUARIES Dora Kacnelson Adam Penkalla Notes on the Contributors Glossary Index

'In many respects, the publication of a collection such as Jewish Women in Eastern Europe signals the emergence of a new area of research. Although scholars of east European Jewry began applying the insights of gender studies to their research relatively recently, the breadth and depth of scholarship showcased in this volume illustrates a commitment to reshaping our understanding of Jewish life in eastern Europe along gender lines. This collection, which is the first in the Polin series to be devoted to gender analysis as well as the first such compilation on east European Jewish women generally, should thus prove foundational in this developing field ... offers generally high quality articles that will prove interesting to scholars of gender history, Jewish history, and east European Jewish history as well as to advanced students working on relevant topics.' Elana Jakel, Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes 'In recent years there has been a fair amount of research and publication on East European Jewish women. Two of the editors of this volume have taken a leading role in the field and have written path-breaking books on the topic. However, many of the studies are scattered, and not all are easily accessible. Therefore, the decision to devote a volume of Polin to the topic of Jewish women in eastern Europe was very justified. Not surprisingly, the editors were able to collect some excellent studies that make this book essential reading for both gender issues and East European Jewish history. The authors employ a variety of methodologies and use diverse sources. However, most of the studies can be characterized by a palpable excitement and enthusiasm for the topic, their readers, and most of all for the subjects of the papers ... the introduction is a very comprehensive and readable historiographical survey written by the editors of the volume. They made a real effort to integrate the topic of Jewish women in Eastern Europe into both the general literature about women in the past and the literature on the history of Jews in Eastern Europe ... This volume, like the others in the series, is distinguished by the value and originality of the contributions, the careful editing, the attractive appearance, and concern for readers. It should be noted that the volume has a detailed index that includes not only names but topics. Someone worked hard on it. All in all, this volume of Polin is a very important contribution to the field and a pleasure to read. What more could one ask for?' Shaul Stampfer, Shofar

This is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish womens experiences in eastern Europe. It attempts to go beyond mere description of what women experienced and to explore how gender constructed distinct experiences and identities. It is an important first step in the rethinking of east European Jewish history with the aid of new insights gleaned from the research on gender.