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
Raymond Pearson. National Minorities in Eastern Europe, 1848-1945; S. M. Horak et al Eastern European. National Minorities, 1979-1980
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- 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
For most Westerners, Eastern Europe remains one of the most complex and baffiing areas of the world, despite its superficial rationalization under communist rule. This is an impression which even a more prolonged acquaintance with its history over the last two centuries can only confirm. It is certainly one that this reader gained from a perusal of the detailed studies contained in Stephen Horak's comprehensive handbook of national minorities in Eastern Europe between 1919 and 1980. Arranged by ‘state-nation’, the studies offer a brief historical survey of the overall position of minorities in each state, followed by sections on each minority, together with a valuable bibliography arranged by national minority within each state. It is therefore possible to compare the fate of, say, Jews, Gypsies and ethnic Germans in several states, particularly through the many tables of population growth and decline. It is also possible to gauge the demographic impact of the Second World War on the fate of minorities within each ‘successor state’, and the ways in which post-war settlements have reduced the political importance of the problem of national minorities in Eastern Europe. In these respects, the handbook, by compiling and presenting so much scattered information in a single volume and indicating what is being done in Eastern Europe in the way of further research, performs an invaluable service. My only regret is that its focus on the state boundaries of ‘national’ minorities does not allow a simultaneous presentation of the fate of ‘ethnic’ minorities as a whole, i.e. across the historical boundaries of the successor states.
A similar demographic emphasis is apparent in the otherwise excellent short general account of Eastern European minorities by Raymond Pearson. Here the time-scale stops at 1945 but extends back to 1848, a date which by his own admission possesses symbolic rather than real significance in Eastern Europe (and in some cases the story had to be carried back to Napoleon's incursions, in many ways a more helpful starting-point for a complex story). Again, the effects of the World Wars, especially the Second, on political boundaries and demographic patterns, notably of ethnic Germans, Russians, Gypsies and Jews, are presented in a concise, but balanced, manner.
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- Poles and Jews: Renewing the Dialogue , pp. 340 - 342Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2004