Copyright

Yankev Leshchinsky

Published On

2024-09-16

Page Range

pp. 147–152

Language

  • English
  • Yiddish

Print Length

6 pages

10. Old-fashioned methods in new times

  • Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
  • Robert Brym (translator)
  • Eli Jany (translator)
Chapter of: The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37(pp. 147–152)
In premodern times, Jews, when threatened, “would fast and pray to God to still the hand of the slaughterers, to turn the heart of the wicked lord or king toward goodness.” More recently, however, “a generation of Jewish revolutionaries…ridiculed and scoffed at the fasters, penitents, and self-flagellators” and fought against those who oppressed the Jews. Yet today, students have returned to fasting. Meanwhile, Jewish workers’ organization applaud them while, in Lodz, Jewish workers merely request that the authorities protect the Jewish population from attack rather than demanding action backed up by force. Undated, 1937?

Contributors

Yankev Leshchinsky

(author)

Robert Brym

(translator)
SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus at University of Toronto
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 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.