Conscious HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0002
N. Aleksiun
{"title":"The Making of Professional Polish Jewish Historians","authors":"N. Aleksiun","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter studies the academic agenda of professional Jewish historians who received their training before 1918, in the imperial context of Austria–Hungary, at the universities of Lwów, Kraków, and Vienna, and the social and political contexts in which they were active. It shows that Polish Jewish historiography emerged as a field of interest among the Polish intelligentsia and the enlightened Jewish elite throughout partitioned Polish lands in the early to mid-nineteenth century. This new cohort boasted professional university training and saw themselves as part of the guild. In the early works of Schorr, Schiper, and Bałaban in the first decade of the twentieth century, a more substantial and critical scholarship on the history of the Jews of Poland emerged. The chapter then argues that their understanding of Polish Jewish history was shaped by their immersion in Polish historical writing and by their responses to political developments in Galicia, such as the emergence of the Jewish national movement and the increasingly complex position of the Jewish community in the region in relation to the Polish and Ukrainian national narratives.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127860640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conscious HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0003
N. Aleksiun
{"title":"Becoming Polish Mainstream","authors":"N. Aleksiun","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces the trajectories of Jewish scholars in the aftermath of the First World War. It narrates how scholarship by Bałaban, Schiper, Schorr, Mahler, and Ringelblum, among others, crafted a Polish Jewish communal narrative that offered the approximately three million Jewish citizens in the new Polish state a unified sense of their past in the Polish lands. These Jewish historians shared the belief that history was a crucial tool for the work of answering questions arising in the current situation, as well as for achieving the aspirations of the Jews in the new Polish nation. History provided a model for Jewish cultural autonomy as well as for inter-ethnic relations. The chapter investigates the struggle of these Jewish historians to get their scholarship included in the broader Polish historiography and examines the difficulties they encountered as Jews in their professional lives. It also examines whether Jewish students who entered the universities became part of the country's historical guild, or whether they were forced to create a parallel system of academic institutions.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130395725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conscious HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0001
N. Aleksiun
{"title":"Historical Beginnings","authors":"N. Aleksiun","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the foundations of the study of Polish Jewish history in the second half of the nineteenth-century. It argues that modern interest in Jewish history in Poland emerged at a time of acute political crisis, as members of the Polish elite studied the rise of Poland as a regional power in the early modern period and its subsequent collapse at the end of the eighteenth century. The chapter examines the emergence of scholarly writing on the history of Jews in the Polish lands and the ideas that drove the development of this new field. It tracks the ways in which non-Jewish Polish writers such as Tadeusz Czacki, Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski, and Władysław Smoleński engaged with the subject of the Jewish past in the Polish lands. The chapter demonstrates how their programmes, questions, and biases spurred Polish Jewish authors, such as Aleksander Kraushar and Ludwik Gumplowicz, to bring a historical dimension to their public discussions about the place of the Jews in the Polish lands and to their agenda for recasting Jewish relations with the surrounding society.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114208597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conscious HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0004
N. Aleksiun
{"title":"Beyond the Ivory Tower","authors":"N. Aleksiun","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the tensions between popular and scholarly writing on Polish Jewish history. The chapter follows the channels through which Polish Jewish historical scholarship reached a broader public in Poland. Although ideologically animated, this historical discourse often served practical political purposes. Polish Jewish historians worked in close relationship with Jewish communities, and they believed that by pursuing a scholarly course they were fulfilling an important social, cultural, and political mission. It further discusses a new generation of university-educated rabbis who delivered sermons for Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers and participated in public ceremonies commemorating events of Polish Jewish history. The chapter reflects how private and state schools for Jewish children commemorated national Polish holidays, taught Polish and Polish Jewish history, and took students on historical tours. Time and again, Jewish representatives at both the local and national level referred to history to strengthen their political claims.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126237740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conscious HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0005
N. Aleksiun
{"title":"Themes and Trends of Historical Enquiry","authors":"N. Aleksiun","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the broad topics and genres of Polish Jewish historiography addressed by historians in the 1920s and 1930s. It presents the most important topics repeated in academic and popular contexts: Polish–Jewish relations in the past, with particular attention to the Jewish contribution to the country's economic prosperity and to Poland's struggle for independence, and the internal life of individual Jewish communities, their leaders, and their institutions. When writing about Polish–Jewish relations in previous centuries, and particularly in their accounts of conflict and coexistence, Jewish historians in interwar Poland paid close attention to mutual cultural influences between Jews and non-Jews, attempting to account for instances of friction and anti-Jewish violence. The chapter focuses on the ways in which Jewish historians presented Polish Jewry as a social, cultural, and political entity closely linked with the history of Poland. It assesses how Polish Jewish historical writing took on a direct political meaning as a response to the treatment of these subjects by contemporaneous Polish historiography.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132691083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER","authors":"Tim Stephens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1zqdvn5.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1zqdvn5.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the tensions between popular and scholarly writing on Polish Jewish history. The chapter follows the channels through which Polish Jewish historical scholarship reached a broader public in Poland. Although ideologically animated, this historical discourse often served practical political purposes. Polish Jewish historians worked in close relationship with Jewish communities, and they believed that by pursuing a scholarly course they were fulfilling an important social, cultural, and political mission. It further discusses a new generation of university-educated rabbis who delivered sermons for Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers and participated in public ceremonies commemorating events of Polish Jewish history. The chapter reflects how private and state schools for Jewish children commemorated national Polish holidays, taught Polish and Polish Jewish history, and took students on historical tours. Time and again, Jewish representatives at both the local and national level referred to history to strengthen their political claims.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133112323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HISTORICAL BEGINNINGS","authors":"H. Burton, M. Rubin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1zqdvn5.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1zqdvn5.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the foundations of the study of Polish Jewish history in the second half of the nineteenth-century. It argues that modern interest in Jewish history in Poland emerged at a time of acute political crisis, as members of the Polish elite studied the rise of Poland as a regional power in the early modern period and its subsequent collapse at the end of the eighteenth century. The chapter examines the emergence of scholarly writing on the history of Jews in the Polish lands and the ideas that drove the development of this new field. It tracks the ways in which non-Jewish Polish writers such as Tadeusz Czacki, Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski, and Władysław Smoleński engaged with the subject of the Jewish past in the Polish lands. The chapter demonstrates how their programmes, questions, and biases spurred Polish Jewish authors, such as Aleksander Kraushar and Ludwik Gumplowicz, to bring a historical dimension to their public discussions about the place of the Jews in the Polish lands and to their agenda for recasting Jewish relations with the surrounding society.","PeriodicalId":106792,"journal":{"name":"Conscious History","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121700609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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