Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations and Maps

Introduction

Part 1 The Rise of the Metropolis

Chapter 1 Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792

Chapter 2 Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820)

Chapter 3 In Warsaw and Beyond: The Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization

Chapter 4 The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the First Gerer Rebbe

Chapter 5 From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880

Chapter 6 An Unhappy Community and an Even Unhappier Rabbi

Chapter 7 Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914

Chapter 8 In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe

Chapter 9 Hope and Fear: Y.L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–12

Chapter 10 “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture

Chapter 11 A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War

Chapter 12 The Capital of “Yiddishland”?

Chapter 13 The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris

Chapter 14 Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: The Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period

Chapter 15 From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry

Chapter 16 Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw

Part 2 Destruction of the Metropolis and Its Aftermath

Chapter 17 The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940–1943

Chapter 18 “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust

Chapter 19 The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach

Chapter 20 Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944–1949

Chapter 21 The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews

Chapter 22 The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Chapter 23 The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents

Chapter 24 In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed

Chapter 25 “Context is Everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky

Name Index