In this volume, articles on Jewish Warsaw over the centuries cover the history of jewish settelment; Jewish populations in the eighteenth century; the background to the 1790 pogrom; relations with Christians in the early partition period (1795-1861); the acculturation of the nineteenth century; Warsaw as a Yiddish literary centre; Jewish Warsaw before the first world war; the history of the Warsaw ghetto; and Jewish historians Emanuel Ringelblum and jacob Shatzky. Other topics covered include the religious orders and the Jews during the holocaust, and the integration of the Jews in Radom.
