Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Čechoslovakischen Republik I

Author(s): / Language(s): German,Hebrew

this eBook is a "Digsimile" (digital Facsimile)-Edition of the original volume published in 1929. The series of the annuals have been started by a group of young historians of the Jweish community of Bohemia who,, after the first World War and for the first time in history, got access to the archives in Prague and in Vienna.

Die Megillat Eba - in Seligmann Kischs Übersetzung

Author(s): Guido Kisch / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Szentírás és zsidó tudomány

Author(s): Vilmos Bacher / Language(s): Hungarian

Wilhelm Bacher (January 12, 1850–1913) was a Hungarian scholar, Orientalist, and linguist. In 1877, he was appointed by the Hungarian government to the professorship of the newly created Landesrabbinerschule of Budapest and remained as teacher of the Biblical sciences and Jewish history. The congregation of Pest appointed Bacher director of the Talmud-Torah School in 1885. In 1884 Bacher and Joseph Bánóczi founded the review “Magyar Zsidó Szemle” (Hungarian Jewish Review), which they conjointly edited during the first seven years. In 1894 he assisted in founding the “Izraelita Magyar Irodalmi Társulat” (The Israelite Hungarian Literary Society). This society instituted a new translation of the Bible into Hungarian - the first complete translation due solely to Jewish initiative. The first five volumes of year-books of the society were edited by Bacher in conjunction with F. Mezey and afterward with D. Bánóczi.

Van-e zsidó reneszánsz?

Author(s): Richard Papp / Language(s): Hungarian

The Hungarian cultural anthropologist Richard Papp highlights the complexity of the question – does the Jewish Renaissance exist. He takes as example the Jewish Community Bethlen Square in Budapest and introduces the reader to the Jewish life in the Betlen Square Jewish community as well as to the Hungarian Jewish culture.

Without Jews? Yiddish literature in the People’s Republic of Poland on the Holocaust, Poland and Communism

Author(s): Magdalena Ruta / Language(s): English

Magdalena Ruta explores the virtually unknown area of Yiddish literature created in Poland after World War II. She unravels before general readers and future researchers numerous texts and analyses them in a lucid and captivating manner. The book should appeal to readers from various disciplines as well as to a non-scholarly audience as it touches upon difficult and complex problems that only recently have become the subject of thorough research and that are still perceived as controversial, such as Polish-Jewish relations after the war, or the fascination of a substantial number of Polish Jewish intellectuals with communism. It is worth stressing that the author deals with this sensitive topic competently and objectively. // Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

Pięć ksiąg Tory. Komentarze

Author(s): Paweł Śpiewak / Language(s): Polish

A collection of the Torah commentaries arranged in the annual cycle of the synagogue readings. The commentaries relate to the particular events of the biblical history, as each part of the Torah contains a specific story, has its heroes, happens at a certain time and place. The author attempts to familiarize the Polish readers with a centuries-old tradition of the Torah reading and commenting cultivated by the followers of Judaism. Keywords: Torah, Judaism, Torah commentaries, Bible

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 06, Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Relacje i dokumenty

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The volume concerns the fate of the Jewish population in the General Government four districts: Cracow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw. It includes testimonies, memoirs, personal documents and official records, such as German ordinances, reports and transcripts of the proceedings of the Jewish Councils, Jewish Social Aid and the American Joint Distribution Committee. The documents cover the period from September and October 1939 to some time after November 1942; there are also memoirs that touch upon the pre-war period.

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 07. Spuścizny

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The volume consists of materials deposited in the ARG by Emmanuel Ringelblum’s closest collaborators: writer and journalist Rachela Auerbach, lawyer and economist Hersz Wasser, teacher Eliasz Gutkowski, and the Archive’s treasurer, entrepreneur Menachem Mendel Kon. Letters, certificates and fragments of notes are testimony to the work of the Archive, the everyday life of its collaborators and through this – to the experience of Jewish intellectuals in the ghetto. The last chapter contains patents of inventors Henryk Piórnik and Wacław Kączkowski issued by the Polish and foreign patent offices.

Közép-európai arcképcsarnok. 20. század

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

This book presents 27 portraits from Central Europe of 20th century. What is Central Europe? It's not easy to determine it. This region was always in the crossfire of dispute. Central Europe resembles Egyptian dying and rising gods, but the region exists and it has given many distinguished personalities to Europe and the World. The book presents this richness.

Istoria Letoniei

Author(s): Silviu-Marian Miloiu,Edgars Plētiens,Kristīne Ante,Valters Ščerbinskis,Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor / Language(s): Romanian

The book approaches the history of Latvia from the earlist traces of human habitat to the present. It is a rather detailed analysis blending methods of political history, social history, economic history, international relations, nationalities studies, etc. and tackling the main lines of history of all communities living or which have lived in Latvia.

Studia hebraica. Księga pamiątkowa. Seminarium Wiedzy o Hebrajszczyźnie Biblijnej dedykowana Pani Profesor Kamilli Termińskiej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Czy Polacy i Żydzi nienawidzą się nawzajem? Literatura jako mediacja

Author(s): Marta Tomczok / Language(s): Polish

In Polish literature, the story of Jews, their culture and its influence on the Polish society has been in circulation for over three hundred years. Since the 1940s, the Holocaust has delineated the story, testing linguistic efficiency and imagination, as well as forming a permanent reference point in the collective consciousness and one of the most important issues of Polish culture. It can be couched in the question, “How should we build relations with Jews?” Literature has been posing it in a virtually unchanged form for a century, failing to notice the long absence of the important addressee and interlocutor: Jews. The question about Polish relations with Jews, which has an extremely strong impact on writers, requires clarification. Firstly, it is not addressed only to Jewish recipients, but above all to Poles. Secondly, it is symbolic, not actual, and results from the overwhelming need to take over the dominant narrative of mutual relations and “set it up” in such a way that it would no longer be a stain on our history, but would allow us to purge ourselves of it, explain it or even write it anew. From the chapter, “What Unites Us?”

The Haskalah Movement in Russia

Author(s): Jacob S. Raisin / Language(s): English

published in Philadelphia, 1913, by The Jewish Publication Society of America

Żydzi – problem prawdziwego Polaka. Antysemityzm, ksenofobia i stereotypy narodowe po raz trzeci

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The publication examines the findings of the comparative research on antisemitism in Poland in 1992, 2002 and 2012. The analysis of the results demonstrates that democracy favours rejecting hostility towards the Jews, but causes antisemitism to become part of a broader, nationalistic and catholic ideological view. Polish religiosity and the fact that many Catholic Church representatives influence antisemitic attitudes in Poland seem to be a predominant opinion.

2. Repere : Kafka, Singer, Hrabal, Havel - Holy Anorexia

Author(s): Adriana Babeți / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

E deja primăvară, prin mai. El are aproape 27 de ani și își începe jurnalul intrând în „pădurea întunecoasă”. Poate fără să vrea, o parafrază la Dante : „în pădurea întunecoasă, cu pământul pătruns de umezeală, nu mă orientam decât după albul gulerului său” Fără nimic simbolic și, mai ales, fără făgăduința paradisului. O intrare în labirint, în infernul vieții de zi cu zi, singur, exilat încă de la început în propriul corp. „Sigur e că scriu asta din deznădejdea pe care mi-o inspiră trupul meu și viitorul acestui trup”. E chiar a doua frază din jurnal, iar mai încolo va consemna că îi e teamă, oroare, milă, scârbă de „acest trup”. îl disprețuiește și îl reneagă ; îl refuză ; iar corpului îi e teamă, oroare, milă de el, de Franz Kafka; îl disprețuiește și îl refuză; îl reneagă la rându-i. „Cu un asemenea trup ca al meu nu poți izbuti nimic în viață.” într-adevăr, în viața reală, Franz Kafka și propriul corp sunt doi străini, față în față, despărțiți de o pavăză : „o clipă m-am simțit învăluit de o platoșă. Cât de departe îmi sunt, de pildă, mușchii brațelor”. S-ar părea că se simte protejat, apărat, izolat de lume, dar de fapt, platoșa s-a așezat între el și propriul său corp, din al cărui prizonierat ar vrea, clipă de clipă, să scape. De aici, obsesia conturului ferm, a limitării brutale prin care „jalnicele trupuri omenești” sunt izolate, fără putința unei comunicări reale; de aici, obsesia camerelor etanșe, a ușilor care se închid mereu, dar nici una care să te protejeze, să-ți dea sentimentul de „acasă”. Unde e casa, unde-i acasă, „locșorul acela curat pe pământ, peste care uneori să strălucească soarele, ca să te poți încălzi și tu nițel”? Niciunde. Sunt, toți, și el, Franz, și Gregor, și Georg, și Joseph K., și Karl, bărbați în toată firea, dar nu au o casă a lor : stau cu părinții, în gazdă, în chirie, prin hanuri, pensiuni, hoteluri, „flotanți”, suspendați mereu în interval.

Benjamin Fondane – le seuil philosophique et le motif du « juif errant »

Author(s): Ștefana Gabriela Sîrbu / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Benjamin Fondane is a Romanian author which at the age of 25 left for France, where he became a renown philosopher and expert in aesthetics. This modification of geographical coordinates had a significant impact on the author: the threshold he has to pass is not only linguistical but also creative. His life there isn’t facile and has to face the French language, which he knew but only by means of reading. Fondane’s meeting with Shestov was an important event in his life in France; it is Shestov who insists that he should read philosophy and also encourages him to write philosophy. It is for this reason that Fondane’s French poetry, his philosophical essays and aesthetic studies bear, to a certain extent, the mark of Shestov. Shestov and Fondane are philosophers of mystery and metaphysical anxiety, of the suffering of the individual and of the dialogue between man and God – if Shestov continues on the path of religious thought, Fondane remains more firmly attached to the Jewish spiritual identity and this fact is quite apparent – all of his philosophical and poetic work confirms it.

Chassidismus und Zaddikismus

Author(s): Jacob Itzhak Niemirower / Language(s): German

In the characterization of Hasidism, the following moments should be identified and dealt with: First of all, the feeling of religiosity that emerges in Hasidism is to be analyzed and its position in relation to the practical exercise of religion, which occupies a place of honor in Judaism in general and in Hasidism in particular, is to be subjected to a critical examination. This strange mixture of fantastic emotional enthusiasm and practical energy in Hasidism could then be derived from the material and spiritual need which burdened the Hasidic world and in part burdened it and acted as midwife and wet nurse of the Hasidic sect. The products of the religious sentiment on the one hand and the propensity for the practical application of Judaism on the other, as well as the combined results of these two salient characteristics of Hasidic doctrine, are also to be shown in the light of research.

Mojżesz Mendelssohn i potomność

Author(s): Martina Steer / Language(s): Polish

Tytuł oryginału: Moses Mendelssohn und seine Nachwelt. Eine Kulturgeschichte der jüdischen Erinnerung Seria Klio w Niemczech, t. 28 Książka wydana wspólnie z Niemieckim Instytutem Historycznym w WarszawieŻydowski filozof oświeceniowy Moses Mendelssohn pozostawał postacią kontrowersyjną jeszcze długo po swojej śmierci: jedni widzieli w nim wizjonera dającego początek lepszej przyszłości, inni zaś winili go za upadek judaizmu. Martina Steer napisała pierwszą całościową analizę fenomenu Mendelssohna jako zbiorowego miejsca pamięci od momentu jego śmierci w 1786 r. do czasów narodowego socjalizmu w Niemczech. Na przykładzie obchodów jubileuszowych organizowanych na jego cześć w Niemczech, Polsce i USA autorka pokazuje związki między pamięcią o Mendelssohnie w tych krajach i przedstawia go jako jedno z najsilniej oddziałujących żydowskich miejsc pamięci. Martina Steer pracuje na Uniwersytecie Wiedeńskim, gdzie zajmuje się historią Żydów i Europy. Wykładała także na Uniwersytecie Europejskim we Florencji, była stypendystką licznych instytucji naukowych w Europie i Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jest autorką biografii Berthy Badt-Strauss, jednej z najbardziej znanych niemieckich dziennikarek międzywojnia i jednocześnie działaczki syjonistycznej.

W Katowicach się urodziła miłość do Syjonu. Konferencja Katowicka protosyjonistów w 1884 roku – źródła, wydarzenia, postacie, rocznice

Author(s): Barbara Kalinowska-Wójcik / Language(s): Polish

In November 1884, Katowice became an important location on the map of the emerging proto-Zionist movement. Delegates from the Lovers of Zion Movement, known as Chovevei Zion, gathered in the city to decide on supporting the settlement initiative in the Land of Israel and seeking international support for it. This work presents the circumstances leading to the decision to hold the conference in Katowice. It explains the direct and indirect reasons for choosing this location and why the representatives of the local Jewish community were so actively involved in organizing the meeting. The publication includes appendices that critically edit the translations of the conference protocols from 1883 and 1884, as well as jubilee publications from 1909 and 1934.