In this provocative and insightful book, Joanna Beata Michlic interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal "threatening other," harmful to Pol

Interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal 'threatening other, ' harmful to Poland, its people, and to various aspects of its national life.

Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany’s ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany bui

"A richly perceptive sociological consideration of the Jewish community as a caste in 19th- and early-20th-century Poland... A book that should be part of any s

The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.