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concerns the presence of the Jews and their culture in the everyday life of both cities
("The Present").
1. Places
The article written by Adam Kopciowski concerns the history of the Jews in Lublin.
The author presents their history beginning with the First Republic, through the 19th
Century and the interwar period, the tragic experiences of the Holocaust during the
Second World War, reaching the difficult post-war years. The author consistently proves
that the Jewish community constituted an integral part of the city, creating its exceptional
image in each of the functioning aspects. In this view, Lublin is a Polish-Jewish
city, open also to other nations and traditions, in which the multi-cultural structure of
the old Jagiellonian country was focused. (Outline History of the Jews in Lublin).
This city remains in the memory of many Jews in the world as the capital of Chassidism,
and this is expressed in the next two articles. Agata Paluch presents the most
important issues concerning the inheritance of the great masters who lived here in
previous centuries, (Mystical Traditions in the Teachings of the Rabbis of Lublin), and
Ewa Grochowska recalls the most important tendencies in Early-Chassidic mysticism
(in contemporary studies called the "mystical heresy"), connected to the Lublin region
and such figures as Sabbataj Cwi and Jakub Frank (Messianic Movements in the Lublin
Region in the 17th and 18th Century). Part of the historic considerations of this subject
is completed (and simultaneously opens the Lviv subject matter) with the article written
by Konrad Zieliński. This tells about the experiences of Jews on the route to assimilation
in two different Polish Partitions - the Austrian and the Russian Partitions,
(The Routes to Emancipation for the Galician and the Congress Kingdom Jews).
Next two articles concern the Jewish community of Lviv. Anna Kraczkowska creates
a view of their colonization in the city, showing also the centuries-old conflict
between Jews and non-Jews {Jewish Community of Lviv between 16th and 18th Century
— areas of colonization and legal status). Mikola Hetmanczuk presents the experiences
of Jews from the most difficult Soviet times, debunking the myths about the omnipresence
of Jews in the Soviet safety apparatus. Jews were in many cases the victims
of this system, exactly the same as the Poles, the Ukrainians or the Armenians. (The
Participation of the Jewish Population in the Process of the Formation of the Intelligentsia
in the Lviv Region in the Post-War Period (1944-1953).
2. Memory
This part begins with texts concerning the cultural heritage of the Jews and the
manner of its commemoration in Poland and Ukraine, from the perspective of the
past and the present. They cover the religious museums established at the turn of the
19th and 20th Centuries (not only Judaic), which preserved already unused objects
of culture for posterity (Beata Skrzydlewska, Jewish and Christian Religious Museums),
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