Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital Centering the Periphery

"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) "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) "Polish Jewish life and culture has always been regional, diversely reflected in a multitude of centers from shtetlekh to urban working-class districts to provincial capitals. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars of Polish Jewry present original essays on the varieties of Jewish culture that once flourished in and around Poland." - Jeffrey Veidlinger (author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Ho) "Polish Jewish life and culture has always been regional, diversely reflected in a multitude of centers from shtetlekh to urban working-class districts to provincial capitals. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars of Polish Jewry present original essays on the varieties of Jewish culture that once flourished in and around Poland." - Jeffrey Veidlinger (author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Ho)