{"product_id":"the-jews-in-poland-and-russia-vol-2-18811914","title":"The Jews in Poland and Russia  Vol. 2: 1881-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his three-volume history  Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive surveysocio-political  economic  and religiousof the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War  this was the heartland of the Jewish world: nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone  while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United States  and many of the Jews of Israel  originate from these lands  their history there is not well known. Rather  it is the subject of mythologizing and stereotypes that fail both to bring out the specific features of the Jewish civilization which emerged there and to illustrate what was lost. Jewish life  though often poor materially  was marked by a high degree of spiritual and ideological intensity and creativity. Antony Polonsky recreates this lost worldbrutally cut down by the Holocaust and less brutally but still seriously damaged by the Soviet attempt to destroy Jewish culture. Wherever possible  the unfolding of history is illustrated by contemporary Jewish writings to show how Jews felt and reacted to the complex and difficult situations in which they found themselves. This second volume covers the period from 1881 to 1914. It considers the deterioration of the position of the Jews during that period and the new political and cultural movements that developed as a consequence: Zionism  socialism  autonomism  the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature  Jewish urbanization  and the rise of popular Jewish culture. Galicia  Prussian Poland  the Kingdom of Poland  and the Tsarist Empire are all treated individually  as are the main towns of these areas. Volume 1 covers the period 13501881; Volume 3 covers 19142008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946752700469,"sku":"ByrdShop_1904113834","price":169.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781904113836.jpg?v=1769964873","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-jews-in-poland-and-russia-vol-2-18811914","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}