Acknowledgments

Notes on Commentators

Notes on Transliterations, Place-Names, and Publishers

Maps

Introduction: Interwar Polish Jewish History: A Reevaluation

Moshe Rosman

Part One

Looking Back: Society and Religion in Pre-World War I Poland

Jewish Society in the Polish Congress Kingdom, 1860-1914

Antony Polonsky comments

Prolonged Erosion, Organization, and Reinforcement: Reflections on Orthodox Jewry in Congress Poland., c. 1850 to 1914

Shaul Stampfer comments

3. Religious Coercion, Freedom of Expression, and Modern Jewish Identity in Poland:

I. L. Peretz, Sholem Asch, and the "Circumcision Scandal" in Warsaw, 1908

Adam Ferziger comments

Part Two

Society, Youth, Women, and Politics: Aspects of Jewish Life in Interwar Poland

4. Partial Success, Great Achievements: On Jewish Autonomy in Interwar Poland

Marcin Wodzinski comments

5. National Revival, Ongoing Acculturation: Jewish Education in Interwar Poland

Natalia Aleksiun comments

6. To Enlist the Enthusiasm of the Young: Orthodox Jewish Non-Political Responses to the Challenges of Interwar Poland

Uriel Gellman comments

7. The Missing 52%: The State of Research on Jewish Women in Interwar Poland and Its Implications for Holocaust Studies

Dalia Ofer comments

8. Woman? Youth? Jew?: The Search for the Identity of Jewish Young Women in Interwar Poland

Eliyana Adler comments

9. Reluctant Partners, Ideological Rivals: Reflections on the Relations between Agudath Israel and the Zionist and Religious Zionist Movements in Interwar Poland

Ada Gebel comments

Part Three

Struggles and Scandals: The Politicization of the Polish Rabbinate in Interwar Poland

10. Ideology of Agudath Israel: "Da'at Torah" and "Birthpangs of the Messiah"

Aryeh Edrei comments

11. Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period

Asaf Yedidya comments

12. The New Jewish Politics and the Rabbinate in Poland: New Directions in the Interwar Period

Mordecai (Motti) Zalkin comments

Part Four

Jews as Part of the Fabric of Polish Society

13. Messianists, Pragmatists, and Patriots: Orthodox Jews and the Modern Polish State

Kamil Kijek comments

14. Polish-Jewish Relations in Modern Times: The Search for a Metaphor and a Historical Framework

Yitzhak Conforti comments