Copyright

Leshchinsky, Yankev;

Published On

2023-03-08

Page Range

pp. 1–30

Language

  • English

Print Length

30 pages

1. On the Sociology of Polish Jewry

  • Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
  • Robert Brym (translator)
  • Eli Jany (translator)
Chapter of: The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33 (pp. 1–30)

Numerous social, economic, and political forces made post-World War I Poland the most important centre of world Jewry—and Poland’s Jewish community the least prone of all Jewish communities to ethno-religious assimilation. The most important bases of Polish Jewry’s ethno-religious resilience were the community’s high level of population density, residential segregation, socio-economic distinctiveness, political isolation, and institutional autonomy.

Contributors

Yankev Leshchinsky

(author)

Robert Brym

(translator)
SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Robert Brym, FRSC, is SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest works include Robert Brym and Randal Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023) and “Jews and Israel 2024: Canadian Attitudes, Jewish Perceptions,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes (38: 2024), 6–89. For downloads of Brym’s published work, visit https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Eli Jany

(translator)
PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto

Eli Jany is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has translated poems by Sarah Reisen (In geveb, 12 May 2020, https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/three-poems-reisen) and, with Robert Brym, co-translated volume 1 of The Last Years of Polish Jewry and “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature: Yitskhok Ber Levinzon and Yisroel Aksenfeld,” East European Jewish Affairs (53, 1: 2024), both by Yankev Leshchinsky.