Dedication

pp v-v

Editors and Advisers

pp vi-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Polin

pp ix-x

Contents

pp xi-xvi

Towards a Polish–Jewish Dialogue: The Way Forward

pp xvii-xxvi

Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names

pp xxvii-xxvii

List of Figures

pp xxviii-xxviii

List of Abbreviations

pp xxix-xxx

Introduction

pp xxxi-xxxiv

PART I - JEWS IN EARLY MODERN POLAND

pp 1-2

Jewish Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Poland

pp 3-39

‘For the Human Soul is the Lamp of the Lord’: The Tkhine for ‘Laying Wicks’ by Sarah bas Tovim

pp 40-65

The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought

pp 66-84

The Ashkenazi Élite at the Beginning of the Modern Era: Manuscript versus Printed Book

pp 85-98

The Accusation of Ritual Murder in Poland, 1500‒1800

pp 99-140

Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The Gwoździec-Chodorów Group of Wooden Synagogues

pp 141-182

In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov: A User's Guide to the Editions of Shivḥei haBesht

pp 183-199

Knowledge of Foreign Languages among Eighteenth-Century Polish Jews

pp 200-218

PART II - NEW VIEWS

pp 219-220

Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema's Portrayal of Polish–Jewish Relations

pp 221-246

‘That Incredible History of the Polish Bund Written in a Soviet Prison’: The NKVD Files on Henryk Erlich and Wiktor Alter

pp 247-272

Mayufes: A Window on Polish–Jewish Relations

pp 273-286

On the History of the Jews in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century Poland

pp 287-318

PART III - REVIEWS

pp 319-320

REVIEW ESSAYS

On Eisenbach on Emancipation

pp 321-325

A Reply to Tomasz Gąsowski

pp 326-332

Two Books on Isaac Bashevis Singer

pp 333-338