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Document Type: | Book |
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Natalia Aleksiun |
ISBN: | 9781906764890 1906764891 |
OCLC Number: | 1263257593 |
Description: | xii, 329 Seiten |
Contents: | Introduction1. Historical Beginnings2. The Making of Professional Polish Jewish Historians3. Becoming Mainstream4. Beyond the Ivory Tower 5. Themes and Trends of Historical EnquiryEpilogueBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Natalia Aleksiun. |
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Reviews'This is an important subject not only for those concerned with the modern history and culture of Polish Jews but also for anyone interested in the relations between academy and community or in the social role of scholars and scholarship'.David Engel, New York University 'Historical scholarship was a main feature of Polish-Jewish culture between the wars and is one of the main legacies of Polish Jewry. This book, analysing the political and social context and the metahistory of that work, promises to be a landmark piece of scholarship.'Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University 'Natalia Aleksiun's important new book [...] gives voice to these largely unknown historians who may have doubted the efficacy of their enterprise but never their right to undertake it [...] Thanks to Aleksiun's carefully researched and evocative book, we now know their names and their scholarship.'Nancy Sinkoff, Sources 'Aleksiun weaves a powerful narrative about public intellectuals, historical scholarship, and Polish-Jewish relations... Conscious History is an innovative and exemplary contribution to scholarship about Polish Jews and interwar Poland that deepens our understanding of many of the questions that continue to animate historians today.'Joanna Sliwa, H-Poland 'Pioneering in many aspects... Aleksiun's book serves as a collective biography of the Jewish historians working in Poland at the turn of the century and during the Second Republic. The author skillfully describes their legacy as well as their complicated and sometimes tragic relations with the Poles.'Rafal Stobiecki, H-Soz-Kult '[Conscious History's] strength is exactly where it deals with the richness of Jewish history in Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew, bringing to life a largely forgotten community... it is a must-read both for those interested in the Jewish history of Central Europe and historians of scholarship from and of the region.' Jan Surman, Jewish Culture and History Read more...

