Description:
This book highlights the modernity of Polish Jewish culture through its literature, poetry, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the visual arts, and music in urban centers large and small. The contributors expertly reassert the belonging of Jews in Polish lands and showcase the multivalent texture of Polish Jewish cultural production before World War II.
Review Quotes: "This splendid collection of essays breaks new ground in the study of Polish Jews and their cultural engagements. They redraw the map, bring centers and peripheries into unexpected relations, delineate cultural spaces in novel ways, and treat topics never before considered with a bracing freshness."--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett "Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews" (10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM)