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Longing for Home:  Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in Inter-war Polish-Jewish Literature

Studia Judaica
This article discusses the significance and enduring presence of nostalgic narrations in works by Polish-Jewish authors that are often accompanied by motifs of anti-nostalgia. They derive from complex
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
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The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland

Nordisk Judaistik, 2017
This article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims.
Diana Isidora Popescu
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Polish – Jewish Relations: A Historical Perspective and Contemporary View

Journal of Social and Political Sciences, 2022
This article is the expansion of a presentation made by the author at Zarrow Pointe in Tulsa, Oklahoma in July of 2022. It considers the topic of “Polish-Jewish Relations” in four parts: (1) Historical Perspectives on Polish-Jewish relations to World War II, including background on early Jewish migration into Poland, information on the period of Polish
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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The Aid of the Polish Government-in-Exile to Jewish Refugees in Spain, 1943–1944, as Reflected in the Archive of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Refugees’ Correspondence with Ignacy Schwarzbart

Studia Judaica
The article discusses the relations between the Polish government-inexile in England and Polish Jewish refugees stranded in Spain in the years 1943– 1944.
Dorota Choińska
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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“I knew just one little Jewess hiding . . .” The case of Zofia and Marian Chomin - edited and introduced by Agnieszka Haska

Zagłada Żydów, 2010
The presented materials come from the case files of Zofia and Marian Chomin, arrested in 1945 and accused of denouncing Jews living in a tenement house in No. 8a Jabłonowskich St. in Lvov during the war, including the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka.
Agnieszka Haska
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Stosunki polsko-żydowskie na Uniwersytecie Poznańskim w latach 1919–1939 w świetle materiałów archiwalnych

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2020
Polish-Jewish Relations at Poznan University, 1919-1939, in Light of Archival Materials This article covers Polish-Jewish relations at Poznań University between 1919 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, in light of unpublished documents ...
Wojciech Mądry
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The 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: An Attempt at a Summary

Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 2023
The review discusses the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s celebrations in Poland.
Taczyńska Katarzyna
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