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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38: Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History

Name: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38: Gender and the Body in Eastern European Jewish History
Brand: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
SKU: 9781802070385
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Contributors:

Elissa Bemporad (Editor), FranÃ§ois Guesnet (Editor), Joanna Degler (Editor)

Publisher:

Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Religion, Education, History

Book Subcategory:

Judaism

Book Topic:

Rituals & Practice

Series:

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry #38

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Release Date:

1/13/2026

ISBN 13:

9781802070385

Weight:

1.86 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 1.06 inches

Pages:

480

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Jewish attitudes to the body, gender, and sexuality are traditionally influenced by religious considerations. Explorations in this volume extend to how communal and state-related concerns have intersected with the personal--in care for the elderly, birth control, white slavery, and burial, as well as in the recent entanglement of antisemitism and misogyny. Holocaust-related topics include gender-dependent perceptions of warfare; gender and pogrom violence; how impersonating diverse identities became a matter of survival; how the plunder of Jewish clothes engaged the bodies of both victims and bystanders; and how mass graves perpetuated a Jewish presence after the genocide. Other studies include how the Jewish body has been construed in fiction, ego-documents, and (queer) poetry, and how Jewish youth thought about sport. The volume concludes with four reflections on the embodied self.

About the Author
Guesnet, François: -

Co-editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe, Polin, 34 (2022), and, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University Kraków.

Polonsky, Antony: -

Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010-12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

Bemporad, Elissa: - Elissa Bemporad holds the Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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