The Jews in Poland and RussiaVolume III,: 1914 to 2008

Each of thethree volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of therealities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while alsoconsidering the contemporary political, economic, and social context.

Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-rangingoverview down to the mid-eighteenth century, including social, economic, andreligious history.

The period from 1764 to 1881 is covered in more detail, withattention focused on developments in each country in turn, especially withregard to the politics of emancipation, acculturation, assimilation, and forcedintegration. Volume II: 1881 to 1914 explores the factors that had a negative impact on Jewish life aswell as the political and cultural movements that developed in consequence:Zionism, socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddishliterature, Jewish urbanization, and the rise of popular Jewish culture.

Galicia,Prussian Poland, the Kingdom of Poland, and the tsarist empire are all treatedindividually, as are the main cities. Volume III: 1914 to 2008 covers the interwar period, the Second WorldWar, and the Holocaust, including Polish–Jewish relations and the Soviet recordon the Holocaust.

A survey of developments since 1945 concludeswith an epilogue on the situation of the Jews since the collapse of communism