Note on Names and Place-Names

Table of Major Place-Names

Note on Transliteration

PART I FOCUSING ON GALICIA: JEWS, POLES, AND UKRAINIANS, 1772--1918

Introduction: The Jews of Galicia under the Habsburgs

Israel Bartal

Antony Polonsky

Dimensions of a Triangle: Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Austrian Galicia

John-Paul Himka

Austrian First Impressions of Ethnic Relations in Galicia: The Case of Governor Anton von Pergen

Franz A. J. Szabo

The Jewish Question in Galicia: The Reforms of Maria Theresa Joseph II, 1772--1790

Stanislaw Grodziski

Ludwig Gumplowicz's Programme for the Improvement of the Jewish Situation

Hanna Kozinska-Witt

Enlightenment, Assimilation, and Modern Identity: The Jewish Elite in Galicia

Jerzy Holzer

The Consequences of Galician Autonomy after 1867

Jozef Buszko

Politics, Religion, and National Identity: The Galician Jewish Vote in the 1873 Parliamentary Elections

Rachel Manekin

From Austeria to the Manor: Jewish Landowners in Autonomous Galicia

Tomasz Gasowski

A Ukrainian Answer to the Galician Ethnic Triangle: The Case of Ivan Franko

Yaroslav Hrytsak

Galician Jewish Migration to Vienna

Klaus Hodl

Yiddish as an Expression of Jewish Cultural Identity in Galicia and Vienna

Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz

PART II NEW VIEWS

Bernard Singer, the Forgotten `Most Popular Jewish Reporter of the Inter-War Years in Poland'

Janina Katarzyna Rogozik

Johann Anton Krieger, Printer of Jewish Books in Nowy Dwor

Emanuel Ringelblum

The Alphabetical List of Payers of the Communal Tax in Warsaw for 1912

Joanna Hensel-Liwszicowa

`The City of Illiterates'? Levels of Literacy among Poles and Jews in Warsaw, 1882--1914

Stephen D. Corrsin

Poles, Jews, and Russians, 1863--1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland

Theodore R. Weeks

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872--1905: A Polish Socialist for Jewish Nationality

Timothy Snyder

The Endecja and the Jewish Question

Roman Wapinski

The Return of the Troublesome Bird: Jerzy Kosinski and Polish-Jewish Relations

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

PART III REVIEWS

Review Essays

The Historical Besht: Reconstruction or Deconstruction?

Immanuel Etkes

Four Days in Atlantis: Jozef Lewandowski's Complex Vision of the Polish Jewish Past

Janusz Korek

On the Bowdlerization of a Holocaust Testimony: The Wartime Journal of Calek Perechodnik

David Engel

Judaica in Slovakia

Adam Bartosz

Book Reviews

Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization in the Mind of the Enlightenment

Daniel Stone

Andrzej Zbikowski, Zydzi

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Elijah Judah Schochet, The Hasidic Movement and the Gaon of Vilna

Alan Brill

Jonathan Frankel, The Damascus Affair: `Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Erich Haberer, Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Chaeran Y. Freeze

Ute Caumanns, Die polnischen Jesuiten, der `Przeglad Powszechny' und der politische Katholizismus in der Zweiten Republik. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der katholischen Presse Polens zwischen den Weltkriegen, 1918--1939

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Wilma Abeles Iggers (ed.), The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Nehemiah Polen, The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto

Pinchas Giller

Ida Fink, A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

Thomas Klein

Jerzy Michalewicz, Zydowskie okreggi metrykalne i zydowskie gminy wyznaniowe w Galicji

Piotr Wrobel

David G. Roskies, A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling

Joanna Rostropowicz Clark

Gershon C. Bacon, The Politics of Tradition: Agudas Yisrael in Poland, 1916--1936

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Harold B. Segel (ed.), Stranger in our Midst: Images of the Jews in Polish Literature

Gwido Zlatkes

Obituary

Chone Shmeruk

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

Notes on the Contributors

Glossary

Index