Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Contents
- Polin
- Statement From the Editors
- ARTICLES
- DOCUMENTS
- INTERVIEW
- A DIALOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Norman Davies Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland
- Linda Gordon Cossack Rebellions. Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century Ukraine
- Edward C. Thaden Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710–7870
- Raymond Pearson. National Minorities in Eastern Europe, 1848-1945; S. M. Horak et al Eastern European. National Minorities, 1979-1980
- Jerzy Tomaszewski Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów (A Republic of Many Nations)
- Henry Rollet La Pologne au XX’ siècle
- Jacob Goldberg (ed) Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Jacob Goldberg (ed) Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Maurycy Horn (ed) Regesty dokumentów i ekscerpty z Metryki Koronnej do Historii, (Żydów w Polsee 1697-1795. T. I: Czasy saskie (1697-1763); T. IL· Rzlądy Stanisiława Augusta (1764-1795), Część I: (1764-1779) (Summaries of Records and Excerpts of the Crown Registry Relating to the History of Jews in Poland, 1697-1795. Vol. I; The Saxon Era [1697-1763]; Vol. II: The Reign of Stanislaw August [1764'-95], Part I, 1764-79)
- Chone Shmeruk The Esterke Story in riddish and Polish Literature. A Case Study in the Mutual Relations of Two Cultural Traditions
- David Darshan Shir HaMa ‘alot L ‘David and Ktav Hitnazzelut L ‘Darshanim. Translated and Annotated by H. G. Perelmuter
- Raphael Mahler Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment. Translated from the Yiddish Eugene Orenstein. Translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein Jenny Machlowitz Klein
- Michael Stanislawski Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855
- O. O. Gruzenberg Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyerby Don C.|Rawson
- David Berger (ed) The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact
- Steven E. Aschheim Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923
- A vigdor Dagan, Gertrude Hirschler and Lewis Weiner (eds) The Jews of Czechoslovakia. Historical Studies and Surveys
- Ferdinand Seibt (ed) Die Juden in den bohmischen Liindern. Vortriige der Tagung des Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee
- Ezra Mendelsohn The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars
- Joseph Marcus Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939
- Shlomo Netzer Ma'avak rehudei Polin al Zekhuyotehem ha-Ezrahiyot ve-ha-Leumiyot (1918-1922) (The Struggle of Polish Jewry for Civil and National Minority Rights [1918-1922])
- Randolph L. Braham (ed) Perspectives on the Holocaust. The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
- Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews
- Władysław Bartoszewski Das Warschauer Ghetto - wie es wirklich war. Zeugenbericht eines Christen ; Oswald Amstler. Solidarität zu Kindern in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern
- Yisrael Gutman The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt
- Yechiel Szeintuch (ed) Yitzhak Katzenelson: Yidishe geto-ksovim: Varshe 1940-1943 (Yitzhak Katzenelson: Yiddish Ghetto Writings: Warsaw 1940-1943)
- Karin Wolff (ed) Hiob 1943. Ein Requiemfür das Warschauer Ghetto
- Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed) The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto 1947-1944
- Jack Kugelmass Jonathan Boyarin (editors and translators) From a Ruined Garden. The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry
- Rachel Ertel Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition à la modernité
- Fr. Tadeusz Sroka Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli Diary, or the Religious Dimension of Man's Fate)
- Znak The Jews in Poland and the World
- Gershon C. Bacon Gershon David Hundert (eds) The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays
- CONTRIBUTORS
Norman Davies Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland
from BOOK REVIEWS
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Contents
- Polin
- Statement From the Editors
- ARTICLES
- DOCUMENTS
- INTERVIEW
- A DIALOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Norman Davies Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland
- Linda Gordon Cossack Rebellions. Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century Ukraine
- Edward C. Thaden Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710–7870
- Raymond Pearson. National Minorities in Eastern Europe, 1848-1945; S. M. Horak et al Eastern European. National Minorities, 1979-1980
- Jerzy Tomaszewski Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów (A Republic of Many Nations)
- Henry Rollet La Pologne au XX’ siècle
- Jacob Goldberg (ed) Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Jacob Goldberg (ed) Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Maurycy Horn (ed) Regesty dokumentów i ekscerpty z Metryki Koronnej do Historii, (Żydów w Polsee 1697-1795. T. I: Czasy saskie (1697-1763); T. IL· Rzlądy Stanisiława Augusta (1764-1795), Część I: (1764-1779) (Summaries of Records and Excerpts of the Crown Registry Relating to the History of Jews in Poland, 1697-1795. Vol. I; The Saxon Era [1697-1763]; Vol. II: The Reign of Stanislaw August [1764'-95], Part I, 1764-79)
- Chone Shmeruk The Esterke Story in riddish and Polish Literature. A Case Study in the Mutual Relations of Two Cultural Traditions
- David Darshan Shir HaMa ‘alot L ‘David and Ktav Hitnazzelut L ‘Darshanim. Translated and Annotated by H. G. Perelmuter
- Raphael Mahler Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment. Translated from the Yiddish Eugene Orenstein. Translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein Jenny Machlowitz Klein
- Michael Stanislawski Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855
- O. O. Gruzenberg Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyerby Don C.|Rawson
- David Berger (ed) The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact
- Steven E. Aschheim Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923
- A vigdor Dagan, Gertrude Hirschler and Lewis Weiner (eds) The Jews of Czechoslovakia. Historical Studies and Surveys
- Ferdinand Seibt (ed) Die Juden in den bohmischen Liindern. Vortriige der Tagung des Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee
- Ezra Mendelsohn The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars
- Joseph Marcus Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939
- Shlomo Netzer Ma'avak rehudei Polin al Zekhuyotehem ha-Ezrahiyot ve-ha-Leumiyot (1918-1922) (The Struggle of Polish Jewry for Civil and National Minority Rights [1918-1922])
- Randolph L. Braham (ed) Perspectives on the Holocaust. The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
- Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews
- Władysław Bartoszewski Das Warschauer Ghetto - wie es wirklich war. Zeugenbericht eines Christen ; Oswald Amstler. Solidarität zu Kindern in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern
- Yisrael Gutman The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt
- Yechiel Szeintuch (ed) Yitzhak Katzenelson: Yidishe geto-ksovim: Varshe 1940-1943 (Yitzhak Katzenelson: Yiddish Ghetto Writings: Warsaw 1940-1943)
- Karin Wolff (ed) Hiob 1943. Ein Requiemfür das Warschauer Ghetto
- Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed) The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto 1947-1944
- Jack Kugelmass Jonathan Boyarin (editors and translators) From a Ruined Garden. The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry
- Rachel Ertel Le Shtetl. La bourgade juive de Pologne de la tradition à la modernité
- Fr. Tadeusz Sroka Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli Diary, or the Religious Dimension of Man's Fate)
- Znak The Jews in Poland and the World
- Gershon C. Bacon Gershon David Hundert (eds) The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays
- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
Poland, says Prof. Davies, is no island, ‘the bell on the Vistula tolls for us all’, ‘Poland's agony threatens to undermine[?] the Main'. The imagery may be confused but the message is clear and not unduly alarmist. An enduring Polish crisis may well lead to a world crisis and in the end to catastrophe. It is therefore the duty of leaders of the countries concerned, not only of the enigmatic Jaruzelski and the deceptively engaging Gorbachev, but also of the leaders of the western democracies to restore the normal functioning of ‘the heart of Europe'.
By a curious quirk of fate, Poland as a danger zone may be compared to Israel. A hundred years before the establishment of the Jewish state, Adam Mickiewicz called for respect, equality before the law and fraternity in relation to the people of Israel, the ‘elder brother’ of the Poles. That brotherly tie, such as it was, has been severed. Poland, ‘Judenfrei’, as well as being purged of the Slavonic and Teutonic minorities of the ancient Commonwealth and the inter-war Republic, draws much of its strength from this new ethnic and religious uniformity. The age-long process of Polish-Jewish cross-fertilization is at an end, probably to the detriment of both parties because self-fertile national cultures bear mediocre fruit. But Prof. Davies takes for granted the desirability of the nation state, one of the great delusions of our time. It is a pity that Prof. Davies, who is not averse to stimulating speculation, has not reflected on what might have happened if Poland had not, as a result of the Partitions, missed the opportunities of independent development offered by the 19th century. Would the changes that occurred in that period have kindled a flame under the potential melting pot of creeds and nationalities?
The delicate subject of Polish-Jewish relations in history, not being strictly relevant to the main theme of Heart of Europe, receives little attention. Prof. Davies writes with sympathy about the extermination of most of the Jewish community by the Germans during the last war and with restraint about the participation of Jews in the activities of the Communist Party before the war and in those of the political police in the post-war period. All this is well-trodden ground in the gaps of a minefield.
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- Poles and Jews: Renewing the Dialogue , pp. 336 - 337Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2004