Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
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Chidusz 4/2019: Bibi Netanyahu, Oriana Fallaci, Jewish DPs, Noa Yedlin and more
Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
Chidusz 3/2019: Polish and Jewish Police during the war, Stolpersteine in Poland, devastated cemeteries
Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
Chidusz 2/2019: utopian Edenia, Jewish property in Poland, water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, emigration plans for Polish Jews in the 1930s
Read what we write about in the current Polish-language issue of Chidusz
A Hasidic Spatial Turn
Professor Marcin Wodziński argues that historians have studied Hasidism from a limited perspective, which is surprising considering that it was a movement of enormous cultural significance throughout Eastern Europe, and that it shaped modern thinking about Ashkenazi Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (…) Researchers, unfamiliar with the geography of the region, found it difficult to assign traditional names to places that fell within the borders of modern Poland or Ukraine. The Historical Atlas of Hasidism remedies this type of methodological error by firmly embedding key questions of Hasidism in a spatial turn.
Hasidism: An Elite Men’s Club
Professor Marcin Wodziński: “The great tsadikim could afford not to deal with women, which does not mean that there weren’t exceptions. Such unprecedented meetings could even raise a tsadik’s prestige: if he agreed to meet a woman, it meant that she was no ordinary woman, but the Shekhina, the divine presence of God”.
Father Israel
Excerpt from the article: Father Tadeusz Rydzyk is the founder of the largest Catholic radio station in Poland. An able political manipulator who relentlessly perpetuates anti-Semitic conspiracy theories through his personal media network, Rydzyk has become the face of the most discriminatory and anti-progressive faction of Polish Catholicism. Poland’s right-wing parties both love and need…
When Angels Came for Tea
Excerpt from the article: Two families hiding a Jewish man and his young son. Siblings informing on their own brother and his Jewish wife. A decent German army police commander, killed just after the war. Jewish women who died because someone was tempted by their alleged “treasures”. The memory of the Holocaust in Koźminek (near…
It’s All Happening at the Zoo
Excerpt from the article: The Żabiński Award honors Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. It has been awarded since 2015 by the controversial From the Depths foundation, which mimics the agendas of several better established organizations that deal with Holocaust commemoration. The award is the foundation’s flagship project and aims to redress failings on…