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Jan Doktór – Nowa czy oficjalna historia chasydyzmu? (Hasidism. A new History. By David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński); Marzena Zawanowska - Arje Mikołaj Krawczyk, Krew, orchidea, atrament: endofazja i heautoskopia w Sefer ha-Ot, „Księdze znaku” r. Abrahama Abulafii (1240-1292). Edycja krytyczna, tłumaczenie i interpretacja tekstu
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This essay recounts a jouney of scholarly discovery in a brief and freely anecdotal form relating to a unique but hitherto almost completely unnoticed Holocaust memorial at Vienna’s Central Cemetery – a rabbinical gravehouse that is covered in ,petitions‘ by Viennese Jews from the period of the Shoah. The essay aims thereby not least of all to showcase the largely neglected and sometimes extremely difficult study of gravestones as historiographic sources. It offers a brief excursion into the Chassidic practice of leaving written petitions at rabbinical graves as an attempt to account for the origins of the ,graffiti‘ at this particular grave house, aiming finally thereby to garner greater public attention for this unique Holocaust memorial as well as for the largely still unrealised potential of Vienna’s Jewish cemeteries to serve as cultural and sociohistorical archives.
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The paper proposes to analyse the causes for which in November 1918, the National Jewish Council in Bukovina declined the invitation to attend the General Congress summoned to approve the unification of the province, until that point submitted to the Habsburg authority in Romania. The uncertainties entailed by the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy among the Jewish population in Bukovina, which had been benefiting from citizen rights – they were indeed worried about their future status in the Romanian Kingdom and about their adjustment to their new minority status acknowledged after 1918 – represented a major challenge for the Jewish elites and their political and identity options after the First World War.
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