Modern Jewish History in Eastern and Central Europe in the 19th through 20 Centuries

SOURCES:

• Salomon Maimon, The New Hasidim (1893)

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Raphael Mahler, Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Philadelphia: Jewish
  Publication Society, 1985, p. 3-29
• Rachel Manekin, “Hasidism and the Habsburg Empire, 1788-1867”, Jewish History 27, 2-4(2013), p. 271-297

SOURCES:

• Naphtali Herz, Words of Peace and Truth (1782)

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Raphael Mahler, “The Social and Political Aspects of the Haskalah in Galicia”, in: Studies in Modern Jewish Social History, red. Joshua A. Fishman, New York: Ktav, 1972, p. 58-85

SOURCES:

• Hinda Bergner, On Long Winter Nights… Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900), ed. Justin Daniel Cammy, Cambridge Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 96-117

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Jerzy Holzer, Enlightenment, Assimilation, and Modern Identity: The Jewish Élite in Galicia, Polin vol. 12, s. 79-85
• Rachel Manekin, The Lost Generation: Education and Female Conversion in the Fin-de Siécle Krakow, Polin vol. 12, p. 189-219.

SOURCES:

• Leo Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation (1882)
• Hashomer Hazair, Our World-View (1917)

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Rachel Manekin, Politics, Religion, and National Identity: The Galician Jewish Vote in the 1873 Parliamentary Elections, Polin vol. 12, p. 101-119.
• Joshua Shanes, Neither German nor Poles: Jewish Nationalism in Galicia before Herzl, 1883-1897, Austrian History Yearbook 34(2003), p. 191-213.

SOURCE:

• Andrzej Żbikowski, Rozwój ideologii antysemickiej w Galicji w II połowie XIX w.: Teofila Merunowicza atak na żydowskie kahały,” Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego no. 3-4 (167/168) (1993), s. 53-62, nos. 1-3, (169-171) (1994), p. 21-39.

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Daniel Unowsky, Local violence, regional politics, and state crisis: the 1898 anti-Jewish riots in Habsburg Galicia, in: Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918, ed. Robert Nemes and Daniel Unowsky, Massachusetts, 2014, p. 39-59.

SOURCES:

• Minorities Treaty (June 28, 1919)
• Constitution of the Republic of Poland (1921)
• Bronisława Witz-Margulies, Jan Kazimierz University 1936-1939: A Memoir, Polin, vol. 14, p. 223-235

SECONDARY READINGS:
David Rechter, The Jews of Vienna and the First World War, London and Portland Oregon: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001, p. 67-98

SOURCE:

• David Kahane, Lvov Ghetto Diary, Amherst, 1990, p. 31-84

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Aharon Weiss, Jewish Ukrainian Relations in Western Ukraine during the Holocaust, in: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective, ed. Howard Aster and Peter A. Potichnyj, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, 1990, p. 409-419.

SOURCES:

• Moshe Maltz, Years of Horror. Glimpse of Hope. The Diary of a Family in Hiding, New York: Shengold Publisher, 1993, p. 124-155.

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzeżany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 141-152
  Natalia Aleksiun, “Regards from the Land of the Dead: Jews in Eastern Galicia in the Immediate Aftermath of the Holocaust”, Kwartalnik Historii Żydów June 2013 nr 2(246), p. 257-271.

SOURCES:

• http://www.geshergalicia.com/
• http://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-recommendations/guides/yizkorbooks

SECONDARY READINGS:

• Larry Wolff, The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010, p. 383-419