Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 35 [Hardcover]

An investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel's cultural and political development, as well as of the continuing relationship between Israel and Poland today.An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel's cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a political movement, Zionism had as its main goal the creation of a 'New Jew' who could contribute to building a Jewish state, preferably in the historic homeland of the Jewish people, where Jews would free themselves from the negative characteristics which, in the view of the ideologues of Zionism, had developed in the diaspora. Yet, inevitably, those who settled in Palestine brought with them considerable cultural baggage. A substantial proportion of them came from the Polish lands, and their presence significantly affected the political and cultural life of the Yishuv, and later the State of Israel. In this volume, scholars from Israel, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, and North America explore different aspects of this influence, as well as the continuing relationship between Israel and Poland, up to the present day.Introduction

Israel Bartal, Fran?ois Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Scott Ury

I. Before Zionism

Hasidic Communities in the Land of Israel in the Nineteenth Century

Uriel Gellman

Polish Distinctiveness in Jerusalem, Congress Poland, and Western Prussia in the Nineteenth Century

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

II. From the Beginnings of Zionism to the Second World War

Between Attraction and Repulsion, Disaster and Hope: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel before 1948

Lukasz Tomasz Sroka

Zionism in Poland, Poland in Zionism

Anna Landau-Czajka

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