Polish Jews in Israel

Polish-Language Press, Culture, and Politics

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Author:
Elżbieta Kossewska
Translator:
Scotia Gilroy
In Polish Jews in Israel: Polish-Language Press, Culture, and Politics Elżbieta Kossewska presents a study of the political history of Polish Jews in Israel and their cultural and intellectual achievements, with particular emphasis on the Polish-language press. The book describes Polish immigrants’ adaptation in Israeli society after World War II, and shows the shifting of emigrants’ attitudes and viewpoints against the backdrop of the Israeli political system. The book contains numerous testimonies, memoirs, and personal documents from Polish journalists and writers that have never been published before. These anecdotes, biographical curiosities, and fascinating details create an evocative and colorful picture of the lives of key figures of post-war Polish life in Israel.
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2021
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Elżbieta Kossewska is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. She has published many monographs and articles devoted to Polish-Israeli relations and the cultural and literary heritage of Polish emigrants.
"This book, originally published in 2015 by Warsaw University Press, is a highly scholarly volume, the product of meticulous and painstaking research, for the most part conducted in archives in Israel. The subject is an interesting and important one — addressing the larger questions of the path of emigrants toward integration and assimila¬tion in a new host culture through the medium of foreign language media in their native language. (…) With its extensive bibliography and detailed footnotes, Polish Jews in Israel is an invaluable reference source." - Mindy C. Reiser, Jewish Study Center, Washington, D.C., in AJL News and Reviews, February | March 2022, Volume II, No.6
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Introduction

1 Foreign Languages in Israel
 1.1 The Status of Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew
 1.2 Language and Press Policy
 1.3 The Polish Language in Israel

2 Newspapers Published by the Progressive Party and the General Zionists
 2.1 The Alliance of Jews from Poland in the Progressive Party
 2.2 The Propaganda Policy of the Editors of Opinia
 2.3 Nowiny [The News]
 2.4 The Gomułka Aliyah

3 Mapai’s Press
 3.1 Mapai’s Policy Towards Polish Journalists and Immigration
 3.2 The Editorial Office
 3.3 Clientelism
 3.4 Language, Politics, and Propaganda
 3.5 Nowiny versus Kurier
 3.6 Nowiny-Kurier
 3.7 The Lavon Affair and the Coalition Crisis

4 “Foreigners among Foreigners …” – The March Aliyah
 4.1 Ambivalent Identity
 4.2 Nowiny-Kurier vis-à-vis the March Aliyah
 4.3 The Attitudes of Zionists and Postcommunists Towards the March Aliyah

5 Mapam’s Od Nowa
 5.1 Mapam and the New Olim from Poland
 5.2 Ignacy Iserles and “Homeless Themis”
 5.3 Od Nowa – The Newspaper for Outsiders
 5.4 Success with Readers in the Israeli Press
 5.5 Between Commercialization and Weekly Opinion
 5.6 Difficulties of Adaptation
 5.7 Ethnic Politics and National Issues
 5.8 Crisis

6 Walka – The Newspaper of the Israeli Communists
 6.1 The Gomułka Aliyah and Maki
 6.2 Walka
 6.3 Controlled Adaptation of Communists
 6.4 Israeli Communists and the International Communist Movement
 6.5 March Epilogue: Biuletyn Związku Długoletnich Działaczy Ruchu Robotniczego
 6.6 The Israeli Epilogue of Po Prostu and the Bund

 Conclusion

Glossary of Selected Terms
Bibliography
Index

Researchers dealing with Jewish topics, emigration, Israel, journalism and literature, as well as Polish Jews living in Israel and the diaspora. The book should be directed to Slavic and Judaic libraries.
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