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Jewish Lublin. A Cultural Monograph

Adina Cimet


This book describes a Lublin not found on any map: a Lublin built 800 years ago whose character was shaped by the people who lived in it. Understanding that Lublin requires an act of imagination, for a vibrant Jewish Lublin is not found in the city of today. Lublin's Jewish past had a long history, of which only traces remain. This book tries to capture that history, describing the parts of its culture that flourished there, reconstructing what was so horrifically destroyed. It therefore seeks to acquaint readers with a world that is lost, dignifying the effors of those who built it and those who have their roots in its soil, perhabs helping us - today - to imagine a future where peace and respect for people and cultures can reign.


Table of contents
Foreword

Lublin I (1264-1795)
The Cradle of Jewish Culture


Introduction: migration and settlement

The Jewish City of Lublin
 Charters: the rules of how and where to live
 Segregation and interaction: the parapolis
 Podzamcze, the "Parapolis" of Lublin
 The rise of Jewish Lublin

The social life of Jewish Lublin
 The urban landscape
 City life and periphery
 Guilds and work relations
 Jewish artisans and their guilds
 Other Jewish occupations
 Political insecurities: Jewish migrations within
 The importance of fairs
 Interrelations and social tensions
 The perennial threats: expulsions and blood libels

Governance
 Jewish autonomy: law, courts, and the judicial system
 Sholem Shachne and the attempt to centralize Jewish life
 Taxation
 The Jewish general Council: Vaad Aratzot
 Politics and the establishment of a power elite: an experiment Kehillah
 The many roles of the council; its status and recognition
 Legal codes

Printing: the catalyst for change
 The effects of printing on knowledge
 The printing trade
 Societal effects
 Personalities: the rabbis
 Political changes and realignments

Lublin II (1795-1919)
The Challenges to a Culture


The flourishing of Jewish culture despite economic and political decline
 A society in transition
 Changes and continuities
  Religious life
  The Enlightenment and its Jewishmanifestation: Haskalah
  Effects of nationalism and political accomodation on Jewish internal authorities
  Unattainable political change and the repetitive message from the pogrom
  The contested minority status of Jewish
  Politics and language

A closer look at the internal social movements
 Hasidism: the inner challenge to traditional leadership
 The new leaders
 Lublin's Hasidim
 The Hasidic message
 The emergence of religious party politics

Political changes and Jewish responses
 Transformation of the political context
 World War I: new states and their minorities
 An antecedent for autonomy: 19th-century Romania
 Anti-semitism: a violent upsurge
 The Polish Minorities Treaty
 The Jewish perspectives as minority
 Solutions for some minorities
 The reaction of the strong states
 The possibility of a solution
 Jewish lobbying: seeking political  solutions
 Jewish ideologies
 Political responses to the times: novel solutions to old problems
 Migration: the old alternative
 Zionism
 Autonomy: ideological variations
 The effect of politics on identity
 
Lublin III (1919-1945)
The Last of a Flourishing Jewry

 
Interwar Lublin and its suburbs
 The suburbs of Lublin
 Identity: always in the making
 The region: shtetlekh and their culture

Street life and culture: the interwar years
 Jewish life in the city
 Jewish schools
 Meir Shapiro and the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin
 From the voice of a Lublin woman
 Synagogues
 Literature
 The jail
 Workers and unions

Jewish organisations in Lublin
 Health organizations
 Banks
 Political parties - youth groups
  Political leaders from Lublin
 Sports

World War II - The Holocaust
 How civility disappeared
 Liberation: the survivors
 The special responsibility of youth groups
 Political organizations
 Survivors and their rebuildingof life
 The region today: epilogue

Index of names

Geographical index

Selected bibliography


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