Suchergebnisse

The frontline city -- Living on the edge -- Wartime crisis management and its failure -- Poles and Jews -- Women and the Warsaw home front -- Warsaw's wartime culture wars

Assimilation, nationalism, modernization, antisemitism : notes on Polish-Jewish relations, 1855-1905 / Theodore R. Weeks -- Jews as middleman minorities in rural Poland : uderstanding the Galician pogroms of 1898 / Keely Stauter-Halsted -- Resisting the wave : intellectuals against antisemitism in the last years of the "Polish Kingdom" / Jerzy Jedlicki -- Criminalizing the "other" : crime, ethnicity and antisemitism in early twentieth-century Poland / Robert Blobaum -- Antisemitism and the search for a Catholic identity / Brian Porter -- The moral economy of popular violence : the pogrom in Lwow, November 1918 / William W. Hagen -- Anti-Jewish legislation in interwar Poland / Szymon Rudnicki -- Clerical nationalism and antisemitism : Catholic priests, Jews and Orthodox Christians in the Lublin Region, 1918-1939 / Konrad Sadkowski -- "Why did they hate Tuwim and Boy so much?" : Jews and "artificial Jews" in the literary polemics in the Second Polish Republic / Antony Polonsky -- Gender and antisemitism in wartime Soviet exile / Katherine R. Jolluck -- Antisemitism, anti-Judaism and the Polish Catholic clergy during the Second World War, 1939-1945 / Dariusz Libionka -- The role of antisemitism in postwar Polish-Jewish relations / Bozena Szaynok -- Fighting against the shadows : the anti-Zionist campaign of 1968 / Dariusz Stola -- Memory contested : Jewish and Catholic views of Auschwitz in present-day Poland / Janine P. Holc -- Works on Polish-Jewish relations published since 1990 : a selective bibliography / Stephen D. Corrsin

This article attempts to demonstrate how an entirely unexplored and seemingly unimportant episode, at least to grand historical narratives, can open up multiple lines of inquiry. In the course of my research on everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War, I came across an intriguing phenomenon-one might even call it a movement-of going 'barefoot' (boso in Polish) during the last two years of the war. Initiated by students from Warsaw's institutions of higher education as a means of symbolic protest against collapsed living standards, the barefoot movement would quickly spread to other groups. As it did, it generated a discourse that revealed existing cultural, political, ethnic, social, and gender-based tensions among an urban population made destitute by the exactions of the Great War. Having mined Warsaw's daily press for any kind of reference to the barefoot movement, I have attempted in these pages to make some sense of this fleeting phenomenon by linking analysis of social and political unrest, metropolitan cultural debates, and the quotidian economic realities of wartime. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright the American Council of Learned Societies.]

This article attempts to demonstrate how an entirely unexplored and seemingly unimportant episode, at least to grand historical narratives, can open up multiple lines of inquiry. In the course of my research on everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War, I came across an intriguing phenomenon—one might even call it a movement—of going "barefoot" (boso in Polish) during the last two years of the war. Initiated by students from Warsaw's institutions of higher education as a means of symbolic protest against collapsed living standards, the barefoot movement would quickly spread to other groups. As it did, it generated a discourse that revealed existing cultural, political, ethnic, social, and gender-based tensions among an urban population made destitute by the exactions of the Great War. Having mined Warsaw's daily press for any kind of reference to the barefoot movement, I have attempted in these pages to make some sense of this fleeting phenomenon by linking analysis of social and political unrest, metropolitan cultural debates, and the quotidian economic realities of wartime.