Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3: The Jews of Warsaw

A central core of articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries covers the history of Jewish settlement; Jewish population in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early Partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the First World War; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Warsaw Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the Holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904113184
• ISBN13: 9781904113188
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"