Dedication

pp v-v

Editors and Advisers

pp vi-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Polin

pp ix-ix

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

pp x-x

Contents

pp xi-xv

Note on Place Names

pp xvi-xvi

Note on Transliteration

pp xvii-xviii

PART I - JEWISH POPULAR CULTURE IN POLAND AND ITS AFTERLIFE

pp 1-2

Introduction

pp 3-6

IN PRE-WAR POLAND

The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk

pp 7-28

Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870–1940

pp 29-58

Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland

pp 59-70

Jewish Theatre in Poland

pp 71-92

A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg's Di khevre-kedishe sude

pp 93-106

Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song

pp 107-118

Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact

pp 119-136

Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century

pp 137-166

Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia

pp 167-188

Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland

pp 189-212

Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland

pp 213-242

Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press

pp 243-268

AFTERLIFE

From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp

pp 269-278

The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations

pp 279-296

Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski's Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context

pp 297-312

‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts

pp 313-334

Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood

pp 335-356